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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. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They already support Debian so this won't be much of a stretch. Hooray! Now, if they would only officially support desktop linux on their laptops and desktops, including help make sure drivers work or driver docs are available...

    1. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Ubuntu Server is basically Debian with a support contract. Which is precisely what a lot of people want.

      Ah but it's got the name "Ubuntu" in it so it doesn't make your neckbeard tingle?

  2. WTH, voiding HW warranty by installing software?! by Zsub · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is this even necessary?! Apparently, you can void your hardware warranty by installing software (from TFA):

    it simply means that by installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on their current (or future) ProLiant hardware that they won’t nullify any kind of hardware warranty

    But how does this even work? Also: as TFA notes, it's unclear who is endorsing who here, with HP being extremely profitable and all, but wouldn't it be cheaper for HP to just not be a little whiney kid about what kind of software you can or can't run?

  3. Re:No other Unix? by characterZer0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    HP already certifies other distributions and operating systems. They are adding Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to the list.

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