hp + community and regional Linux distributions

The purpose of this portal is to promote an active community of like-minded users that are interested in running Linux distributions like Asianux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu on HP ProLiant and Integrity servers and for sharing the latest information, tips, best practices, issues and resolutions

Contributions

While all the content here should be visible to anyone, if you want to contribute, please setup an account here (and some of the following resources also require accounts) to help yourself and others by:

completing the compatiblity matrix for those combinations of interest to you
participating in the collective process of asking and answering questions

Call for Participation - Ubuntu Friendly

Submitted by bryang on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:08

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

Real-Time Linux support survey

Submitted by bryang on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 09:10

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/

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CentOS 6.0 released on July 10, 2011

Submitted by bryang on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 14:59

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.

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Fedora 15 released on May 24, 2011

Submitted by bryang on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 22:01

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.