"We still need to figure out the specific delivery vehicle," Fink said. The options may run the gamut from "dropping stuff in the box or even preloads at some point in the future. At the moment all the options are open."
Fink also characterized the agreement with Novell's SuSE--the Provo, Ut.-based company acquired SuSE in January, 2004--as an expansion of its current sales of Linux-equipped desktops; it is not a start from scratch.
HP sells approximately 100,000 Linux client systems each quarter, Fink claimed, primarily to markets in Asia, India, and Eastern Europe, regions where legacy operating systems--read "Windows"--aren't as deeply entrenched as they are, for instance, in North America.
Last week, HP's Japan unit announced it would introduce new PCs in Asia with Linux pre-installed.
Nor does the announcement of support for Linux on the desktop mean that HP's walking away from its strongest OS partner, Microsoft. Essentially telling reporters and analysts to do the math, Fink pointed out that Linux accounts for only about two percent of client operating-system sales worldwide, and even the most optimistic estimates peg it as no more than ten percent by the end of the decade.
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