[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Pre installed - HP 'standard images' 'may not work' WTF

[Simon Greenwood]

It's probably more about the training that HP's support teams have been
given. Until very recently the support cycle of most PCs would assume that
they had the same OS throughout their lifespan because few people even
upgrade the version of Windows they use, so to allow the people on the
phones to be able to support the new laptops, the decision has been to go
with an old (but still supported) LTS release and to issue a caveat that
new releases 'might not' work but from experience the probability is fairly
low.

The big hardware companies have been very conservative with regard to
Linux. In a project I worked on in 2009 HP were advocating RHEL 4 as a
server platform when RHEL 5 was two years old. They've probably only just
got onto 5, or possibly 6.

s/
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