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  HP Delivers KDE on Laptops
Community and Events Posted by aKademy Team on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @00:38
from the being-mobile-all-the-time dept.
Hewlett-Packard made quite a splash when they announced that they are offering Linux on the nx5000, one of the latest HP laptop models. HP also sponsored aKademy, the KDE Community World Summit as a Platinum sponsor. This included a loan of 24 laptops for usage in the tutorial rooms as well as a special deal for KDE contributors to buy the nx5000 model at a reduced price. The aKademy press team arranged a meeting with Thomas Schneller, Manager Software R&D and asked him about this venture from HP.

Can you please introduce yourself?

My name is Thomas Schneller, Manager Software R&D of the HP EMEA Product Development Center based in Munich. I was part of the Linux Core team which developed the first Linux pre-installation on a nx5000 Laptop.

The KDE desktop contributed to the success of SUSE Linux and HP chose SUSE/KDE for this laptop. What were the strong points for offering a KDE desktop to your customers?

We used the standard configuration which comes with SUSE Linux which is KDE. We believe that KDE is a good choice as it offers basically everything needed on a today's desktop.

Do you give support for the nx5000 configured with a KDE/Linux configuration?

Yes, there is a 90 days support for the pre-installed Linux software shipped on that laptop which is similar to Windows where we offer the same support.

Are there any plans for more models supporting Linux?

It depends on the market response to the nx5000 offer. If there is a need for Linux pre-installed Laptops we will discuss how to support that. Currently we are also thinking to offer better support for Linux in the first place.

Right now the nx5000 is not available in Europe. Do you have any plans to sell them anywhere other than the US?

It is true; right now the nx5000 is only available in USA. It would have been too much effort to offer it for Europe as well as there are so many languages and localization options to take care of. But European customers are welcome to buy it in the USA if they want. It can be ordered on the HP website. Just choose Linux as OS and the Integrated HP W500 wireless option. Drivers for that device are pre-installed. The Intel 2200BG driver was not available at the time we released the pre-installation.

Will you support people who build device drivers and will you be giving them hardware information?

Yes, we already work with the open source community. As an example have a look at HP & Open Source where several Open Source projects are hosted.

Does power management and the winmodem work on the nx5000 as they do under Microsoft Windows?

Yes, basically all hardware is working. ACPI is fully supported, so hibernating your Linux laptop is possible and also the winmodem works on this model. I also want to stress the fact that we welcome any feedback as we are eager to hear people's experiences with our product.

K3B and Kopete running
K3B and Kopete running...

Did you have some problems of getting hardware components to work?

We carefully choose the target platform for that project. We wanted to make sure everything just works. The only problems we had during development were caused by pieces of hardware where detailed specs were not available to us.

Will this only work on SUSE or do you have any plans to support more distributions. Does HP have any plans to better support Linux in general?

Of course other distributions are free to benefit from the work we did. There are plans to distribute BIOS in a Linux-friendly format for selected Models. For the nx5000 this kind of BIOS is still available: ROMPaq for HP Notebook System BIOS (68BCU ROM) Linux-Based. You can just download it onto your Linux desktop, unpack it and run a script which will ask, if you want to create a bootable diskette or a bootable CD. Then you only need to reboot with the bootable media and can flash your BIOS easily. Plans to collect and offer Linux pre-installation instructions and white papers on an open source basis are discussed as well.

Did you write any additional software for the nx5000 project? Any plans maybe on doing that?

Well any needed software we were looking for was already provided by the SUSE Linux distribution like for example the power management applet. So we did not need to write additional software.

Any ideas of working together with KDE developers with this. How about a KControl module for usage in KControl?

HP will support initiatives which will enrich the desktop experience on our laptops. If you or your project has an interesting piece of software please let us know.

HP desktop with DVD player LinDVD
Watching DVD's with LinDVD...

Can you tell us about any experiences your customers have with the KDE desktop on these laptops?

Currently it is still a bit early but we are busy collecting feedback from all people who are using these Linux laptops. We have a feedback loop installed for this. But at least the experience of testers are telling us, we are on the right way.

You sponsored the KDE Conference with these laptops and you even decided to sell some of those laptops at a lower price to our developers. What's the gain for HP for doing all of this?

HP was an official sponsor of the KDE Conference as we are sponsoring open source events in general. Also we hope that by selling these laptops at a nice price that some KDE people will provide us some feedback. We as HP want to improve Linux support for selected models and to do so, we need to understand the issues. We appreciate your feedback, please don't hesitate to send us any problem you're having with the nx5000 you bought.

Is there anything else you want to mention?

Yes. Please post your comments below the article. I will read through them and answer any question appearing.

Thank you for answering these questions and also a big thank you for the support HP has given to KDE.



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DVD support?
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @01:17
I see that there is a screenshot of Finding Nemo on DVD. Does that mean that LinDVD (the stated player) is packaged as a working DVD player? By default SUSE has disabled DVD playback on xine and MPlayer for legal reasons (on easy download of MPlayer "fixes" this). Is legal playback of DVDs available 'out of the box' for these laptops?
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HP recommends XP
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @02:19
I just followed the link to the HP website given in the article:

-Configurable- HP Compaq Business . . . . . HP recommends Microsoft®
Notebook nx5000 with Linux . . . . . . . . .Windows® XP Professional

That's a bit odd, don't you think?
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Distribution in Europe...
by Charles de Miramon on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @02:34
You are mentioning that the localization work for Europe was too much for HP. Did you consider selling the nx500 with a blank hard disk to local partners like Mandrake Linux in France and leave to them the work of installing their tailored Linux Distribution and then distribute it through their online store and maybe HP online store ?

All in all, it is a great move. The Gnu/Linux/KDE market is still quite small and fragmented but I believe that if HP offers the possibility to sell be OS agnostic desktop systems, it can help it regain some market and differentiate itself from Dell. In French Research institutions and Universities, Dell has lately won most of the procurement contracts. But these institutions are slowly moving to Linux and HP move could certainly help the company regain some market share.
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nx9010
by Alex on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @02:53
I have the nx9010 dual-boot notebook (WinXP and RedHat FC1). Linux can be run with FC1 native kernel and a custom built with hibernation (sw suspend) and NTFS driver. Can I benefit from your work and install SUSE instead of FC1 to get full hardware support? (will WinXP run with flashed BIOS?) If so could you give some advices?
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Keyboard layout
by Quique on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @04:46
You mention European users can order the laptop from the U.S. Unfortunately I can't see an option to customize the keyboard layout.

Is there any way to get this notebook with a Spanish or French keyboard, for instance? (They have some additional keys, such as "ñ" pr "ç").
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Interesting
by anon on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @06:44
my feedback:

- using a distro like SUSE is good, as many commercial software packages are basically only supported on RedHat or SUSE.

- any plans for more HP branding on the desktop? From what I can see, they look like a standard SUSE desktop. Any plans for customizing the themes, icons, etc, to make the desktop more HP-like, like Sun has done?
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Linux support for other laptops
by Carlos Lorenzo Matés on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @07:45
Hello. I have a Presario 900 Laptop, would you offer linux support for this laptops (graphic drivers, etc)
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*KEWL*
by Nicolas Christener on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @08:26
Hi I'm a long time HP-reseller (also have a HP-Star-Cert.) and really like the HP nx-series. I've Debian on my nx7000 and always need to borrow a harddrive of a friend (which has windows on his nx7000) to flash the BIOS. If HP would make a BIOS Flash utility available for Linux, this would be great! An other problem is the SD-Card reader. Cause of a damn NDA (AFAIK), there are no opensource drivers for this device :( (http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/20/2224254&mode=thread) However, HP's on the right way :) (Sorry, my english is not that good)
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Warranty
by Miguel S. Garrido on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @09:16
I think you can't get your warranty in the EMEA if you purchased the hardware in another world-region.

I have one problem two months ago with a Compaq Presario purchased in Italy, HP refused to honor the warranty for the display panel in LATAM. Luckily I could carry the machine to Italy one month later.
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Hardware options
by ac on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @10:16
I'm actually looking to buy a new laptop soon and the nx5000 looks pretty nice (once you up the RAM and get the SXGA+ screen)

My question is about the wireless card. I'm a big fan of Intel's Pro series wireless cards, and they seem to be the only way to get "G" support anyway. What I'm wondering is: would it be possible to order the Linux laptop with the Intel Pro wireless card?

I realize that the Intel drivers are still alpha/unstable, but I'm willing to wait and would not expect HP to help me get it working. Would such an order be possible? If not, I can only imagine that I'd have to order a more expensive Windows laptop and install Linux myself. Would this skew your sales statistics and hurt the chances of this model succeeding with Linux?
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Laptop's specs/parts in detail via html & flash
by James Pryor on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @10:29
HP makes it easy to find this really informative link to drawings & specs that labels and identifies the laptop's parts. I found a flash file that uses photgraphs in a similar fashion and is quite helpful. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/information_storage/software/flash/nx5000_part_locator.swf This is quite the laptop and now a real contender for my next major purchase. James Pryor
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European Localization
by Andreas on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @10:30
Hi,

I'm sure there will be demand for this notebook in Europe (and the rest of the world, btw). Given that you based your US version on SuSE, will the add-ons be contributed to a future SuSE version? Then, these might work out-of-the-box, and everybody could buy a notebook (without os) and install a perfectly running SuSE linux....

Regards, Andreas
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Video card options...
by Nathan on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @12:49
I noticed that the only video card option seems to be the intel integrated extreme 2. which is not the great of a video card really. How come no ati or nvidia option? I wouldn't think their license requirements would be that bad if your selling a laptop, but then I don't know for sure. I went through a full configure before I realized I couldn't choose a video card.
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Thoughts
by vb on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @14:15
From a marketing perpective, the US only decision is probably not a great idea. The acceptance of Linux in the US is much weaker than in Europe in my personal experience.

This could be a great niche if pursued by HP, but trying it out in the European (German) market first and gearing it at a student / tech audience is where the money is.

And there would be a lot of money there I believe. I personally have been waiting for a fully supported preinstalled laptop of this kind for a long time. I need someone who guarantees that eg the wireless card works out of the box. I just won't risk > 1500 Euros to kater find out that it could have worked in principle but ...

best of luck in the US corporate market.
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What I don't understand
by Roland on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @15:00
Is why is HP testing Linux on the worst market possible, where Linux-penetration is the lowest (at least of all industrialized countries)?

The nx5000 would be a great success in Europe and Asia, as there is much more mindshare and people running Linux there.

As for localization, all that is needed is the appropriate keyboard-layout, SuSE itself comes in several dozen languages, as does KDE.

So please bring the nx5000 to Europe as soon as possible, you will get a bigger response than in the USA.
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nx9110 and hp Wows...
by Franck Martin on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @16:11
I congratulate HP for such initiative. I think I was getting worried that while HP was claiming linux support, their various product branches were not even checking if linux run on their machines. It is very difficult to find information on which machine runs linux fully (meaning with all drivers). When you corporate purchase, most of the time you purchase on specs alone. Yes, you can have a demo machine, but sometimes it is difficult to test everything, or the demo is slightly different from the sold machine. For instance I see that you must purchase the nx5000 with the non broadcom wireless card.

I used HP customer support and suceed to escalate the problem to product managers regarding my HP nx9110. The ATIIXP new shipset is just supported in latest kernel, the winmodem is just supposed to be supported and the wireless card will never e supported, broacom refuses to release data. What I see important is that HP makes its choice of hardware now based on linux drivers. Yes they can still ship windows, but they should check that their hardware choices do not include unfriendly-linux manufacturers.

For all that to happen, well the sale of the nx5000 with linux must be a success so that everybody in HP take notice.

I would like to see on HP web site, a graph that shows which machine runs linux kernel fully or not (ie there are linux drivers for the hardware). It will allow us, the community, to make an informed decision. We don't need a certification programme, but just, we installed this kernel, and all hardware components were recognised. Up to linux distributors to ship the right kernel and configuration tools.

Ok, carry on.... Good one.

PS: I like the idea about mandrake. As I'm talking about it, they do need to test their distribution on HP servers, as the HP raid array card is always having trouble to being detected at install. HP can you give them access to machines so they can test each release?
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next: Linux on iPAQ?
by Franck Martin on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @17:23
Well the next step is have HP sells one iPAQ with something like GPE (http://gpe.handhelds.org/)

Cheers
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I would like Athlon 64 based notebook with Linux..
by Esko Woudenberg on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @17:28
I am happy to see HP finally offer a notebook with Linux. (Even though many of their salespeople don't seem to know it yet.) Unfortunately it seems to be only the nx5000 so far.

I would really like to buy an Athlon 64 based notebook but am opposed to paying the "windows tax" and have been delaying a notebook purchase for several years now...
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zv5188EA AMD64 laptop
by Matt on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @23:31
you can count one more in your linux stats - I bought the HP zv5188EA AMD64 laptop, only to throw out Windows and install SuSE 9.1 for AMD64, and it rocks!

Only the winmodem refuses to work. Is it the same as in the nx5000? SuSE 9.1 recognizes it somehow, but does not configure it.

Get this going somehow, and you can sell the zv5188EA and similar with SuSE 9.1 AMD 64 easily. All you need to do is to

* add the unusual resolution to the x setup,

* if you need pcmcia: adjust the pcmcia config file to include the memory and ports of this architecture, and use a kernel >= 2.6.7

* have a look at the touchpad setup it works out of the box, but not the scroll area at the right side of it, for that you need to install the synapticts driver and the alps kernel patch) and

* get this stupid winmodem going!

The zv5188EA boots up with SuSE 9.1 *extremely* fast, much much faster than my sata P4 2.4 ghz desktop, and works stable, no problems at all, with great performance.

Only the winmodem is annoying me, I don't like to carry an external one around... HELP!!!

Regards,
Matt
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Real Availability
by The Badger on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @03:35
From the interview:

"It would have been too much effort to offer it for Europe as well as there are so many languages and localization options to take care of."

"Well any needed software we were looking for was already provided by the SUSE Linux distribution like for example the power management applet. So we did not need to write additional software."

From the "European Localization" thread:

"There are no special add-ons except the wallpaper and LinDVD. The pre-installation is based on Suse 9.1 professional."

So, given that KDE is fairly extensively localised, what's all the extra effort for? Documentation? Are there applications in SuSE 9.1 which aren't localised properly? I'd be tempted to get a laptop like this if it were available with Linux in the Nordic region, but the only models that HP resellers offer (including the nx5000) run Windows XP. And I don't see why I have to drop money into Microsoft's slush fund just to have the "privilege" of installing a separate copy of SuSE over the top.

So what's it going to take for HP to really make this available in the rest of the world? Outside developer gatherings, that is.
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Other HP Laptop Support...
by Adham on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @05:47
Hi, REcently I got an hp nx 9005 notebook, and had some trouble with Suse Linux 9.1 Pro (ATI Driver, ACPI, FIreWire) It would be nice, if HP would release a Support Page with official drivers, installation tips, and even an HP sponsered mailing list for Running Linux (esp. Suse) on their models. Its nice to be able to tal to the people inside HP like you Thomas, who seem to know WAY much more about the inner working of teh laptops, and thus can assist in finding solutions faster...

Any way, is my hp nx 9005 going to be supported!! Is it Wishfullthinking....
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freenx / nomachine
by Jeroen on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @06:02
Thomas, bit of a different question altogether; do you know if anyone at HP is looking at nomachine's NXserver and/or freenx? The advantages of connecting thin clients to a huge linux/unix server or cluster seem massive from the security and sysadmin point of view, and both the hardware and software TCO of such a setup would be very appealing. Not to mention that in the deal you get to sell and service big iron. Seems to me that nx has taken this technology to the next level.
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Are HP cameras and printers supported?
by David on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @06:41
Will the Linux OS support the new cameras and printers? What about the new HP iPod? Does it ship with iTunes?
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Getting Multimedia Keys to work with KDE
by Daniel Molkentin on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @08:00
Hi,

Being positively surprised about the well-working software suspend, I was somewhat negatively surprised about the missing support for multimedia keys.

The solution is easy:

1) Follow this description at
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Configuring_keyboards
(Mute is 160, VolDown is 174, VolUp is 176 on the nx5000, test other models with "xev").
2) Load xmodmap on every start (is there a way to configure this in KDE?)

3) install and run kdebase3-mixer aka kmix (you can disable kamix) via yast
(I upgraded the packages to KDE 3.3 by adding ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/yast-source to the installation sources and do an upgrade, worked fine for me).

4) open the mixer window, right click on the master volume slider, "configure shortcuts", assign keys.

5) enjoy your newly working multimedia keys! Please note that the mute LED will not work, this will be fixed in KDE 3.3.1

Alternative way: configure the keys with xmodmap as decribed above. http://hardware.mcse.ms/message65071.html has a nice script
that mutes the sound (even with a working mute LED). Similar could be written for vol up / down. Then assoctiate the script with the keys using khotkeys in kcontrol.

Thomas, could you add method #2 (or preferably #1) for a new revision of revision of the OEM installation?

Should be fairly similar to the way you added the macrovision daemon. I only found it confusing that the daemon is not provided by any RPM package. Why is that?

Cheers,
Daniel
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I'd definitely buy one...
by Klaus on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @11:00
if I hadn't just bought an Averatec laptop two months ago. A laptop that works with Linux out of the box, and that comes without the Microsoft tax, is a dream come true! And the price seems right, too.

So if HP keeps producing great Linux laptops when my current laptop becomes obsolete, they have a customer in me!

Klaus
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KDE contributor deal?
by azhyd on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @15:31
any information on the deal for KDE contributors? was it limited to those that were able to make it to Akademy?
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linuxr3000@quanta.homeip.net mailing list?
by Eric Laffoon on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @16:05
I found this very cool mailing list with lots of great info for Compaq R3000 series notebooks. It has been quiet for several days and I just posted and it seems it's off line. It looks like somebody is hosting it on their home system. Maybe they are out of town or perhaps live in Florida or something. I thought it was cool that their subdomain was quanta, but right now I am frustrated. I'm willing to host it on one of my servers which has near perfect uptime if they would like, but there is no way to know who had the list. Maybe it will be back. If you have any info please email me... sequitur at kde, don't forget the dot org.
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Support for ZD7000 series?
by Rudi Nunlist on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @12:42
Looking for a fast 17" screen laptop, I bought a zd7140 in May and installed Fedora 2. While many features
work, there are some remaining issues. Might there be any support for the 7000 series? Specifically, I could
not get these features to work (stock kernel 2.6.7):
- Suspend/hibernate: Could not get it to resume.
- Blanking the screen: the backlight stays on. It seems to be hard-wired?
- SD card reader: I found no trace of a driver.

Support for a Linux driver for the broadcom wifi card would be welcome. Ndiswrapper works, but the driver
lacks featutes implemented for other cards (monitor mode, etc.). Pushing the wireless button locks the machine.
It appears that the BIOS is set up to not boot if a different wifi card is installed. Is a more tolerant BIOS version
(and linux flash utility) on the drawing board?
I have not tested firewire and S-video, etc.
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HP zd7260
by mark on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @14:25
I love my new zd7260. SuSE 9.1 Pro works great, with just a few things to note. You need to set your keyboard to "microsoft natural keyboard pro" to get your multimedia keys working. The broadcom chip works with ndiswrapper, but not out of the box, and it is somewhat limited. The scrollbar on the touchpad does not work, but I will try the alps driver as mentioned a previous thread. I have no use for the digital media port or for the infrared port, so I don't know if those work. Hibernate/suspend work fine. There is an issue with the screen blinking sometimes, perhaps an issue with the nvidia driver.

I would like HP to provide specific support about hardware compatibilty with linux, perhaps even ensuring they only use components that work in windows and linux.

I had to pay the windows tax, but it would be nice to have had SuSE preinstalled (without windows).

Mark
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I had to pay the windows tax, but it would be nice
by Thomas Schneller on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @14:40
Not to pay it?

Heard that now many times. Seems to be a number one priority in the community?

Please vote.......
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Mr
by Ron de Jong on Sunday 12/Sep/2004, @03:13
I haven't got the HP nx5000, but a laptop with a pre-installed Linux distribution would be my choice otherwise I would install SuSE anyway which is what I've done before on other laptops including a HP laptop which worked excellent even wireless worked out the box (without web encryption unfortunately)

I exclusively work with SuSE Linux and KDE for many years and find it very robust and modern these days, almost everything one expects on a desktop is there and as for a server litterally everything is there.

In the Netherlands some local governments have entirely switched to a Linux desktop and there are more to come. also our educational system and ICT industry massively makes use of Linux as it perfectly matches to work with UNIX/Linux datacenters deployed.

Our central government is also investigating OpenSource possibilities and holding conferences on a large scale.

Linux and her X Window System & Managers helps to work cost effective, stable, modern and powerfull and makes sure that competitive OS manufacturers will not gain monopoly and OSs in general evolve faster.

You're probably just as enthusiastic about Linux as I am and are more curious to issues that need improvement on Linux, which is what I'll write now.

More games as that is what is holding back a lot of people.
More intensive trouble shooting on USB memory sticks/drives (copying large amounts of data causes the system to become instable on rare occasions.
3D window animation functions in Xfree to give window managers a Sun looking glass look and feel which is very slick, productive and attractive.
LinuxBIOS or OpenBIOS would be excellent (opportunity for HP) as that would make BIOS much more powerfull (think about Sun Ultra Sparc Workstation & Servers that allow to be remotely controlled by console (serial port) connected to a terminal server or a simple null modem cable, even if the OS isn't running.

That's it folks and Thanks for all the good stuf!
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Will you support people who build device drivers?
by James Richard Tyrer on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @23:13
I hate to interupt this love fest, but there is a slight problem.

For some reason, HP doesn't do this for their scanners. They don't provide hardware information. Will this problem be addressed soon?

--
JRT
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HT support for new Compaq d530CMT
by Mitch Davis on Thursday 16/Sep/2004, @21:53
Hello,

Does anyone know where I can find information on
enabling hyperthreading under Linux on a new Compaq
d530?

HT is turned on in the BIOS and I'm running an SMP
kernel, but /proc/cpuinfo still shows only one CPU.

Despite the machine being sold with Mandrake Linux,
I've tried HP support but no-one knows Linux or
wants to help.

Many thanks,

Mitch.
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Other models?
by Ian on Saturday 18/Sep/2004, @23:41
Hi. I would first like to extend my sincere thanks to the HP company
for adopting Linux and the Open Source idea. It says a lot.

My questions:
Is Linux offered on any desktop systems currently?
Will other Laptop models have Linux?

A suggestion:
Is it at all possible for HP to consider Gentoo Linux as well?
(www.gentoo.org) Its unique because it is remarkably easy to install
a program. simply type 'emerge' followed by the programs package name
in the Gentoo portage tree. The only thing that can be frowned at is
the ease of installation of Gentoo, so if it was preinstalled, users
would have even better use of the Linux operating system.

Thank you very much.
Ian

PS> I just cant stress it enough, Thank you soo much to HP for doing all
of this Linux work. With your assistance, Linux is expanded dramatically.
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Gentoo Linux/ KDE on my nx7000
by step on Sunday 19/Sep/2004, @01:52
I personally run Gentoo Linux/KDE 3.3 on my nx7000 and i do not have to deal with the SuSE and Mandrake RMP hell.

Why Gentoo Linux? Because they have one of the best package management systems ever.

http://www.gentoo.org

KDE and HP, keep up the good work!

Cheers!
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Does Linux work on other HP notebooks?
by Stefan Ludwig on Wednesday 29/Sep/2004, @00:33
Dear Thomas,

did you try to install Linux on different HP notebooks than the nx5000? If yes, did the hardware inclusive modem and power management work? Can you recommend any other notebook than the nx5000 for Linux?

Thank you very much!
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Great match for nx5000 with SuSE, but ...
by Rick Choi on Wednesday 07/Dec/2005, @01:35
Just installed and configured SuSE Linux 10.0 on my nx5000 machine with packages of my personal purpose. Everything seems to work fine except one thing of wlan stuff..
I found some information from http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ saying that I need to turn the wlan on using hardware RF switch, which is Fn+F2, but it does not show me the blue light for the indication. Even when I type iwconfig on console, it's not configured. I'm wondering how to make this work with my old buddy nx5000. Any help..?
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nx5000, suse and pcmcia card?
by David on Monday 13/Feb/2006, @18:18
I purchased an nx5000 and loaded suse 9.3 on it. It really works quite well. I can't say that in the 6 months that I've used it I've tested everything, but it seems to be functional, and I really like the KDE desktop environment. It seems to deal with updates (kernal 2.6 now) pretty well also.
I recently bought an HP SCR241 pcmcia smartcard reader, and I'll be darned if it isn't incredibly difficult to get it set up. I wonder why everything else seemed so straightforward, and this is so strange. Do I have to buy a smartcard reader from someone other than HP to get my laptop to work with the cards?
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Companies selling Linux Desktops and Laptops
by cyber_rigger on Monday 28/Aug/2006, @22:56
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The HP deal looked like a one-time offer.

Here are companies selling pre-installed Linux Desktops and Laptops.

http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/23168/

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