[Eug-lug] HP and a french supermarket moves closer to linux

Jim K kjim9 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 3 16:51:11 PDT 2004


  HP intorduced a business notebook with linux preinstalled.  The HP 
Compaq nx5000 will feature Novell Inc. (NOVL)'s SuSE Linux and support a 
CD burner, a DVD and media player, wireless connectivity and the 
OpenOffice software suite. From excite news.

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> http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040803/D847VOV81.html

 France's number one supermarket chain, Carrefour, has launched a pilot 
project to sell PCs that come equipped with an operating system not 
often sold by the retail big boys--Mandrake Linux. FRom ZDnet.
 

> http://netscape.com.com/2100-1103_2-5294638.html?part=netscape&subj=technews&tag=mynetscape 
> <http://netscape.com.com/2100-1103_2-5294638.html?part=netscape&subj=technews&tag=mynetscape>

Jim K


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