The Grey Geek

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HP drops Linux from European netbooks

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Philip Casey

Well, HP just lost a customer. I’m a daily reader of Silicon Republic, which notes this morning that HP drops Linux from European netbooks 06.02.2009 Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard (HP) has decided to no longer offer the Linux version of the new HP Mini 1000 in a number of European markets. The new netbook was due [...]

HP releases netbook interface for Ubuntu

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Philip Casey

This is really good news. As I noted in my last post, my old Acer notebook died recently, and I had come to appreciate the value of a second computer (my old pal Paddy Doyle had been preaching this for years), but was baulking at a second notebook. So I was looking askance at a [...]