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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

HP Blazes a new Trail – Preloaded Linux PCs!

HP is blazing a new trail preloading Mandriva Linux on PCs in Latin American markets. This is a first for a major vendor – HP’s European operations had gone down this path previously with a customized Ubuntu distro but used the “we’re shipping with Freedos, install yourself” approach.

Congrats on a bold move. Hopefully it pays off and ISVs like Adobe finally release a Photoshop for Linux, a Macromedia Flash Studio for Linux, and Canon releases printer drivers for its photo printers (a personal pet peeve of mine; and please don’t send me a Turboprint link – it’s not the same)

+1 for HP