Hewlet Packard and Linux

[Liz Hare]

>"no market," but the radical truth is more like "We haven't a
>clue of how to get money for it."

Forgive a comment from an extreme newbie who doesn't even *have* Linux yet.

I've been looking at the companies who make Linux preinstalled systems 
(there's a long list at linux.org), and they seem to have some kind of 
market niche because some of them use hardware that has been tested and is 
known to be Linux-compatible.  With the Windoze dominance of the entire 
computing market, it's attractive to me to buy a system whose components 
are known to be compatible with Linux.  It seems better than ordering 
elsewhere and not being sure the different parts of the system will work 
well with Linux.

any comments or thoughts?

Liz
Liz Hare, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
B47 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
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