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HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

[Posted April 10, 2008 by cook]

DesktopLinux.com notes HP's release of the Linux-based Mini-Note PC. "At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University of Texas Supercomputing Center April 8, Hewlett-Packard announced the release of its first Linux-powered computer to be sold in the United States, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 1. HP was expected to offer a Linux desktop, and now it has finally done so. It's not, however, the Linux desktop that many users expected. Instead of being a general-purpose consumer system or business PC, the Mini-Note is meant for the education market."

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Posted Apr 10, 2008 17:55 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

First? What about the NX5000 with SUSE in 2004?

HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Apr 10, 2008 18:15 UTC (Thu) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223) [Link]

2 GiB RAM, 1.6 GHz processor, up to 160 GB of disk, it's not for education market, is for real
people that want to read mail, blogs, chat and surf when travelling (and they could do all
these with definitely a less powered system).

HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Apr 11, 2008 0:44 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

It's a VIA CPU -- 1.6 GHz is probably equivalent to the 1 GHz Core ULV in performance at best.

I'll bet the 2 GB requirement is just for parity with the Windows variants of the same laptop.
Memory's cheap nowadays anyway, so why not 2 GB?

HP releases its first Linux-powered laptop (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Apr 11, 2008 18:59 UTC (Fri) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768) [Link]


Why no bluetooth on the linux models?