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HP To Certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS For Its Proliant Servers

Posted by timothy on from the buzzword-laden-nod-to-middle-management dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this dose of nice news (untranslated from the PR-ese) on the Linux-in-business front: "Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form of certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the ProLiant server systems. Responding to customer demand, HP has decided to officially support the popular flavor of Linux giving sysadmins another flexible software option to leverage their current and future hardware."

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  1. No other Unix? by unixisc · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why, HP found no other Unix/Linux suitable enough for this platform? From Linux, they could have either gone w/ Debian, or they could have selected RHEL. If they were open to Unix, they could have either gone w/ FreeBSD, or from the SVR4.x, they could have gone w/ OpenIndiana. Any of these would have been better than Ubuntu, for server purposes.

    While they are at it, they might want to select either FreeBSD or Debian as the OS for their Integrity servers (based on Itanic) - it would seem that those would at least have more FOSS available for them than HP/UX.

    P.S. First post for the first time!