HP Offers Debian Support for its Servers

Published: Aug 16, 2006
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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HP and Debian Linux may not sound like an obvious pairing, but on August 14 at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, HP announced that it has increased its Linux distribution support options for customers and will now support Debian Linux.

Specifically, HP will be supporting Debian Linux across its HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem server lines. While Red Hat, Novell SUSE, the Asianux foundation of Miracle, Red Flag, and Haansoft remain HPs first choice of Linuxes for its customers, it has been working internally with Debian since the Linux communitys beginnings in 1995.

HP will provide Debian technical support for installation and configuration during a servers warranty period. The company, according to sources close to HP, will also offer “care packs” for Debian in the future. Care packs will essentially be service packs.

This support plan is not wedded to a particular Debian distribution. Debian Sarge will be the first Debian distribution to be supported. Etch, when its released, will also be supported.

The company also has no plans to sell, market, or certify Debian on HP hardware. So, why do it?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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