HP launches RedHat Linux desktop PC

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Dan Warne30 August 2007, 2:31 AM

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest PC manufacturer, has announced it will start selling Linux-based PCs from $AU600 in Australia.


HP Compaq DX2250: cheap, cheerful and Linux-basedHP Compaq DX2250: cheap, cheerful and Linux-based

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has announced it will start selling Linux-based PCs from $AU600 in Australia.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop will come pre-loaded on the HP dx2250 desktop computer -- an AMD-based model.

The PC itself comes with a range of AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core, Athlon 64 and Sempron processors.

“With the cost of proprietary systems continuing to rise, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop minimises acquisition and ongoing deployment costs, leaving more money and resources for other high-value projects and tasks,” said Max McLaren, General Manager at Red Hat in Australia and New Zealand, taking a clear dig at Vista.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop also comes with OpenOffice preinstalled, Firefox for web browsing and Evolution for email .

Red Hat will also offer Level One, Level Two and Level Three technical support for the solution. HP's announcement did not make clear whether any free software support would be included -- we've put the question to HP.


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johnmar:

PC users will surely be the winners here.

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tin:

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

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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.

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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 fo