According to the blog of ever increasing entropy, HP have decided to kill off it’s FreeDesktop based Mi netbook on the same day that Microsoft Windows 7 came out. In a way this is both surprising and not surprising to me.

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux project, is expected to announce a collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to deliver an additional high-performance server configuration for Ubuntu users.

Recently, a reader told us that server maker Hewlett-Packard was no longer offering support for the Debian distribution of Linux on its servers. And according to HP’s website, that appeared to be the case. But as it turns out, HP is still supporting Debian (in a sense). What it doesn’t offer is formal support for [...]

If Ubuntu is as foreign to you as Klingon, you probably found last year’s initial crop of Linux-based netbooks far less appealing than their XP counterparts, which were released later by the likes of Acer, HP, and MSI.

The selling point of the Mi version, which stands for Mobile internet, is the Linux OS dressed up in nice clothes by HP.

By bundling the free operating system with HP hardware, smaller companies can sidestep the licensing fees associated with Microsoft’s Windows.

While HP was slow in supporting Linux on the desktop, HP has long supported Linux on the server. HP currently supports RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Novell’s SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), Oracle Enterprise Linux and even the community’s own Linux, Debian on its server hardware. Now, HP is about to start supporting Ubuntu on [...]

Well, after considerable struggle, it has been a successful weekend. I’ve been trying since the first day that I got my HP 2133 Mini-Note to get Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) installed on it, without success.

A family member cast out a year-old quad-core desktop and picked up this lovely machine for exactly what the desktop sold for. Judging by the color, this was made for Ubuntu.

I blogged a couple of weeks ago about ditching Windows XP on my laptop and performing a full install of Ubuntu Linux. As it turned out, I installed the wrong version of Ubuntu.

The HP Mini MI netbook provides one of the slickest available Ubuntu GUIs. Hobbyists have now figured out how to install that pretty GUI on non-Mi platforms.

The Linux flavor, officially known as the Mi version (short for Mobile Internet, HP’s custom Ubuntu build), looks and feels the same, except for its slick interface and potentially speedier performance.

I have spent a lot of time this weekend trying to get Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my HP 2133 Mini-Note. I couldn’t even get the LiveCD to bring up the GUI properly, the X server just wouldn’t work, and I tried everything I know, and some things I don’t know.

HP has an Ubuntu-based netbook, the Mini 1000 Mi Edition, that brings a whole new look to Linux laptops. Luckily, regular ol’ Ubuntu users can put some of the Mini’s black-and-blue looks on their desktop.

Hewlett Packard has released a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed for Netbooks — specifically for the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition.

HP is making a Mini computer that is suppose to be cheaper and faster so that you could do the daliy tasks that you need to do without bringing along your Desktop Computer or a large laptop. This makes perfect sense because Ubuntu can run on very little specs.