How HP Uses Debian

• Development Platform

  • HP develops on Debian, contributes developments to the Open Source community, then works with commercial distributors to help them incorporate the new features.

• Hardware Enablement

  • Most Itanium 2 systems ran Debian as their first OS boot!
  • Early shipment of carrier-grade and blade servers

• Benchmarks – HP Itanium2 SPECfp2000 a new record!

• HP Enablement Kit for Linux on Itanium Systems

• iPAQ distributions are Debian derived

  • familiar – minimal Linux environment
  • intimate – full Debian for the iPAQ