HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:06:47 -0500 (EST)
Benjamin Scott <bscott at ntisys.com> wrote:

>   They don't care.  Indeed, they want it that way.  Presario PCs are
> as-cheap-as-possible junk desktops.  Their sole purpose is to keep
money
> from going to the Dells and Gateways of the world.  They don't want
them to
> work really well; that might take sales away from the DeskPro line.
Compaq's
> position is that if you care, you'll buy a DeskPro.
AFAIK, the DeskPro line was killed several years ago. I have an old
deskpro in my office running Win2K and SuSE 9.2. 
It's interesting that there is a strong Linux program within HP (that
pays my salary), but the low end desktop PCs are designed for Windows,
as are Dells and Gateways. HP does have a line of Laptops with Linux
installed. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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