{"id":268,"date":"2005-05-31T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T10:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2005-05-31T12:21:45","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T10:21:45","slug":"ubuntu-linux-on-hp-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Linux on HP laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the news originally, but I&#8217;m quite pleased to see that HP are supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntulinux.org\/\">Ubuntu Linux<\/a> on some of their laptops. When buying a laptop here, HP and Toshiba were the only two that offered any Linux support (they offered to install it and promised it would work). What&#8217;s good about the new HP offering is the laptop will not include the price of a Windows licence, which makes the whole thing a lot more worthwhile (my Toshiba laptop included the Windows licence, like it or not).<\/p>\n<p>However, they&#8217;re making the rather odd choice not to ship Ubuntu by default, rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedos.org\/\">FreeDOS<\/a>. The offer is also not available in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Reports about the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/english\/newsticker\/news\/58780\">Heise Online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdedevelopers.org\/node\/view\/960\">KDE Developer Journals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/05\/14\/2047250&amp;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooltechzone.com\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1341\">CoolTechZone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the news originally, but I&#8217;m quite pleased to see that HP are supporting Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops. When buying a laptop here, HP and Toshiba were the only two that offered any Linux support (they offered to install it and promised it would work). What&#8217;s good about the new HP&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=268\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubuntu Linux on HP laptops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}