Having just installed Precise on my HP workstation, I was excited to see the finalization of full support for Ubuntu on ProLiant! HP and Canonical have removed the nebulous "will it work?" question when choosing unencumbered operating systems on HP hardware. Us HP employees are also HP customers, I know I've wanted to see this support for a long time (as an hp hardware and Linux consumer in various divisions in HP). In the past, we've had to go with expensive alternatives in order to satisfy the real or perceived "neck to choke" requirement. Choice == good.

Official press release:

http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1204-lts-server-be-certified-sup...

Certification matrix:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hplinuxcert-canonical.html

--craiger

Just recently, I discovered the the "Ubuntu Friendly" hardware self-validation program for desktops, netbooks and laptops has gone live. For more details, visit:

http://friendly.ubuntu.com/

And what I am asking for is a call to participate from this great community for giving back to the larger FOSS community. If you find that your
model of HP system is not listed there, please take a few minutes and follow:

http://friendly.ubuntu.com/participate/

It's really rather painless to do, and even works from a LiveCD so that you don't have to install anything.

To submit the results, you'll need to have a Launchpad account.

P.S I've also asked some Canonical folks to see if a server-centric query program and site be made available as well, so will keep you informed as to that status, too

A pointer to ...

Real time extensions to Linux kernels are being adopted by customers to provide more deterministic responsiveness to real world events, such as high frequency trading at Financial Services companies or radar processing in military systems. HP works with both Red Hat and SUSE on Real-Time Linux certifications but more resources are required if we are to certify more servers sooner and proactively rather than in response to specific deals. In order to properly size the market please take a moment to complete this quick 7 question survey which will help us determine the need and funding required for delivering certification support for Real-Time Linux.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CHLVSMMMS/

For the latest release ( http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 ), just encouraging this community's members to try it out on the various platforms.

For the latest release ( http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Release_Notes/index.html ), just encouraging this community's members to try it out on the various platforms, and don't forget to submit the smolt ( http://www.smolts.org/ ) results at the end of the installation to help others.