France's MandrakeSoft has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard in the open source camp's latest foray into the desktop PC market. The agreement, announced on Tuesday ahead of the LinuxWorld Expo, will see ...

NEW YORK--Hewlett-Packard's planned merger with Compaq Computer will speed the advancement of the Linux operating system, HP Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said Wednesday. "This is a combination that's ...

HP has long had a love/hate affair with Linux. On the one hand, HP has long supported Linux on servers. For example, they’re the one major server company that supports Debian. On the other hand, it ...

A partnership under which Hewlett-Packard accelerated the plans of Linux seller Red Hat bears its first fruit: a version of the new Advanced Workstation software for Itanium 2. Stephen Shankland ...

The first HP-Compaq desktops and notebooks running SUSE Linux are slated to come out in the second half, said Martin Fink, vice president of HP's Linux division in Palo Alto, Calif. Details on how ...

Installing Linux on my 8-year-old laptop brought it back from the dead with a surprising new perk ...

HP released its Dev One Linux laptop today. Aimed at coders, the 14-inch clamshell comes at a lower price than previous Ubuntu-based HP clamshells. Starting at $1,099, the Dev One begins to keep costs ...

"We are involved in a number of massive deals for Linux desktops, and those are the kinds of things that are indicators of critical mass. So we are really looking at it very hard," said Doug Small, ...

Part of the problem is unlike Dell where you can save a little by not buying Windows you're forced to pay for it here. Click to expand... You can configure it so that ...

If you're shopping for a desktop Linux PC, you've probably noticed that your options are much more limited than if you were shopping for a Windows 11 desktop. Linux PCs aren't nearly as common as the ...

The software finally matched what the hardware could do.

Linux will work on just about any PC. I mean that literally. Remember the Intel Pentium 4 processor? It came out in 2000, and it's still supported by Debian Linux. That said, Linux runs better on some ...