HP widens Linux programme

PRINTER INK maker Hewlett-Packard is to flog notebooks to its European customers using a customised version of Linux. While HP has been selling Linux as an option for quite a while, it has only been a generic service through its "Factory Express" site in America.

This has left HP open to criticism that generic Linux distribution often does not offer support for notebook hardware.

Euro HP has sat down with the makers of the Ubuntu distribution and specifically designed it to support all its hardware. HP spinsters say that it will work with a wired and wireless network, Bluetooth IrDA and IEE1394 on notebook models nx6110, nc6120, nc6220, nc6230, and nc6000.

Oddly enough this is only being distributed in Europe, because HP thinks that the old country is happier using Linux than the US.

You can find more at Tom's Hardware. µ