Four Ubuntu Installations -- Custom supported CDs

[Paul Sladen]

On 12 Sep 2005, Matthias Heiler wrote:
> It's probably the same mess with Windows, but there the hardware vendor
> works it out once for all customers and puts the results on a
> easy-to-use installation CD.  This won't happen for Linux very soon as
> it is a fast moving [..]

This has been happening to a certain extent with Linux servers for a long
time, since companies buy servers to run Linux on;  and the manufactuer
misses out on a potential sale if the machine doesn't work perfectly with
Linux out-of-the-box.

An extreme version of this is for cluster-environments;  where a machine has
to run not only Linux but LinuxBIOS (Linux as the boot-loader), otherwise
there isn't going to be a sale.

However, with Laptops/Desktops, it's only beginning to work that way.  
But... you may have noticed various annoucements to do with HP, their
laptops and Ubuntu:

  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/custom/hplaptops

This work came from HP, not Ubuntu's...

	-Paul
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