[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora core 4 on HP Pavilion notebook?

[Chris Cox]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Hi Neil.
> 
> For a number of reasons, I have been paying attention to HP Notebooks
> and Linux.  Apparently, HP has some propietary Hardware in their
> Notebooks that the general Linux communtiy does not yet have drivers
> for..  At the start of the summer, they contacted Ubuntu to write the
> drivers and vet with their laptops.  This was completed a couple of
> weeks ago.  As for the other major distrubutions, I will need to get
> some more details.  Tonight I will send you any publicly available
> information and any contact information that I find today.

This scares me... doesn't it scare you?  I mean, HP is not known
for making its own laptops (pretty much like everyone else).

So what are these "proprietary" pieces of hardware?  Why all
the needless cloak and dagger. Ubuntu?  Obviously this makes
only negative dollars from an HP perspective.  Doesn't seem
likely at all (but HP is not known for making smart
business decisions lately).

I don't want to believe that any of this is actually true.

I'd like to see some real info on this.  And not more of
this mysterious cloak and dagger nonsense.  Just make me
want to hate HP if actually true.

Sounds very strange to me,
Chris