HP launches RedHat Linux desktop PC

johnmar:

PC users will surely be the winners here.

tin:

Another big brand giving Linux as an option. Steve Ballmer's going to have a fit.

SandraMadness:

This is good news!! I was unimpressed with Dell/Linux offering, it stunk of Dell's cheapness. But this is a much more mature approach from HP. I believe this package is a lot better in areas of compatability asnd distro stability. Using the cheaper and albeit less powerful AMD combos with this distro will give consumers better performance than say a $1000 "Vistel" job. I just hope the support from HP is as good as it always is as this will only help the platform. I also believe that the Dell offering was rushed to market. Tell me if I am wrong.

Ex-Dell Employee but still not bashing:

Here we go again... does anyone get tired of
Dell bashing? Be mature about it and don't talk about something you don't know about. Seriously... Dell's linux offering
is actually a very good one, yes they had stupidity
issues as far as how much they were charging at first
but that mistake was fixed. Now why does it seem that
Dell is being cheap? Because of the Distro they are
using... maybe you should try using Ubuntu, it is
about a million times better than RedHat. RedHat is
a stale company that has been around in the linux
world since well.. forever. And yet their achievements
as far as improving linux for the "non-geek" has been
nothing less than disappointing. While Ubuntu has
been around maybe a blink of Linux's life and yet
is in my opinion a better OS than RedHat's just because
it is simpler... Simple works... look at OSX. And a
Distro that releases every six months without fail
and always has the issues already ironed out and
makes leaps in Linux technology and compatiblity
is definatly not an immature company. Take it
from someone who had to support RedHat and had multiple
20-30 hour long calls that involved something that
in RedHat is more manually configured and in Ubuntu
is automated. Plus automatix is only available as a
.deb package so it will not work with RedHat but will
in Ubuntu. (Automatix is a wonderful program that
automates many complex tasks for the "non-geek") I
think that the reason HP took RedHat is because Dell
probably has an exclusivity contract with Ubuntu. Oh
yea and Dell was offering RedHat a couple years ago
the support was handled by RedHat as I imagine will
be the case with HP and yea... Have you talked to
those people?

Jon Jahren:

Flaming Red Hat, consequently spelling their name wrong, and suggesting the use of a program known to cause problems. You sir, are a retard. No wonder you worked for Dell. :-)
Is it true that Dell is the only manufacturer that can redistribute Ubuntu? Then Shuttleworth is a very poor businessman.

runlevel:

lole @ stale. are you kidding me. newbuntu is only good for a desktop enviro i agree. but calling RH a stale company is a joke, stale as in.... still kicking ass since the 90's? get real. its much more documented.. its huge in the server market.. and its MUCH more solid than any newbuntu install ive ever ran. automatix is a complete joke in itself.. your obviously a newb yourself so i guess i should take your rants with a grain of newb salt. /lol on you newb.

oh and btw...

your a newb.

ubuntustudio:

Dell by no means rushed the release of its open source options. Currently Ubuntu is one of the most user friendly and continually updated open source os available today. What other free os do you know of that offers automatic updates of software and security. Also of all the different free distros that I have tried it was one of only two that when loaded on my Intel powered notebook and amd powered desktop did it automatically install all the necessary drivers. Before making comments about how things are look into the facts.

Scott:

Choice is good, so good on HP (not that I'll ever have anything to do with them again after having to deal with their customer "service"). But, even though the price is good, how is this going to look, a cheap, underpowered, unknown quantity stuck at the end of a bunch of big ticket, shiny and powerful, Wintel stuff. Will it get enough people interested to justify it's continuation?

bertilP:

As HP is my definite PC for buy I'm delighted that there will be pre-installed Linux as OS.
Thank you HP.

compnut:

fedora,Red hat,Ubuntu and openSUSE are the best linux distros eva

Mehdi Taileb:

Things are definitely changing since Dell jumped in the (so far confidential) GNU/Linux desktop market. It was clear that it was going to induce some reaction from its rivals (especially after the commercial success of the first Dell GNU/Linux PCs), and here is HP, the "world's largest PC manufacturer", joining the party.
Yes this is for the user's best, since so far the market was dominated by the monopoly of a proprietary operating system. But may be more important than that is the fact that it will bring the Free Software "philosophy" to the public's knowledge, which will hopefully revive the meaning of user freedom which characterized computer software before the 80s.
Great news.