HP Workstations with Linux

HP strives to provide our workstation customers with choices offering HP Workstations with Linux as part of our overall multi-OS strategy.

Some of HP's technical workstation markets and customers heavily rely upon the UNIX operating environment, both in their infrastructure and the applications that they use. Linux on personal workstations is a very viable and attractive UNIX alternative. In addition, many OEM's are turning to Linux as a cost effective open source operating system for different applications. We see the Linux desktop emerging quickly as more and more applications on Linux become available. This is especially true in the DCC, EDA , Oil & Gas, OEM, and some MCAD markets.

HP brings value to Linux on personal workstations by partnering with technology providers and customers to deliver superior Intel/AMD workstations to enterprise unix/linux customers. With HP linux workstations you can deploy quickly with confidence.

HP has a dedicated Linux R&D team
HP has been developing UNIX libraries and device drivers for over 20 years, providing HP's Linux R&D team the foundation for enabling, testing and supporting Linux on HP Workstations. HP engineering is doing early and often qualifications of beta releases from linux distributors that enables HP to deliver Linux configured to each HP Personal Workstation. This includes the latest driver updates.

HP provides an engineered solution of Red Hat Linux via key strategic 3rd party relationships
HP maintains strategic relationships with Red Hat, Novell, AMD, Intel, nVidia, ATI, ISV’s, and many additional independent hardware vendors. These strategic relationships drive support for HP workstations into the open source community to enable a timely and quality enablement of HP workstations with linux.

HP Customer Intimacy
HP listens carefully to their customers. Through Customer Advisory Councils HP drives customer requirements into future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases and provides orchestration between hardware releases, Red Hat releases, and ISV’s to deliver a quality solution ready for deployment.

HP provides installation tools to enable you to customize your linux image
Knowing that many customers build their own golden images, we developed the HP Installer Kit for Linux. Your HP Personal Workstation can be delivered with FreeDOS and our HP Installer Kit supports all mainstream releases of Red Hat. This provides you with the flexibility to easily create your own OS image.

HP Support
HP covers our hardware and software technical support via a standard included warranty with each workstation purchase. In addition customers can upgrade the standard 90 days of software technical support to 1 year. Due to our ability to simplify the complexity and sheer number of Red Hat Linux releases, HP offers the most flexible support solution for Red Hat. HP's technical support people are well versed in Linux technology allowing us to ably assist you on a variety of questions or issues.

Not interested in purchasing an HP support Care Pack? Are you linux savvy and able to support yourself? HP provides excellent electronic support via drivers updates and white papers on the HP support website.