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Has Microsoft fired its first shot in the patent war against Linux?

By | February 26, 2009, 1:18am PST

While Microsoft will vehemently deny it, a lawsuit filed earlier this week by Microsoft against in-car GPS maker TomTom represents the first shot fired  in the Microsoft vs. free software war.

According to Todd Bishop writing for TechFlash, there are eight patent violations in question here. Five relate to Microsoft software, while the remaining three relate to TomTom’s implementation of the Linux kernel.

Documents: Complaint filed in federal court, and complaint filed with ITC.

According to Microsoft, it turned to the courts after trying to “engage in licensing discussions” with TomTom for “more than a year.” The Redmond giant is also keen to shift the focus away from Linux and open source:

“(O)pen source software is not the focal point of this action. The case against TomTom, a global commercial manufacturer and seller of proprietary embedded hardware devices, involves infringement of Microsoft patents by TomTom devices that employ both proprietary and open-source software code.”

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Is Microsoft out to stifle open-source and free software?

We don’t have TomTom’s side of the story yet, but this sounds to me either like TomTom took the Red Hat approach and decided that there was no reason to sign up to Microsoft’s patent protection licensing deals, or that the terms Microsoft were offering weren’t acceptable.

So, what’s the Linux connection here? It comes down to the Linux VFAT filesystem which is compatible with Windows long filenames, and this is significant for Linux since VFAT is part of the GPLed kernel code.

Microsoft has long claimed that Linux violates a number of patents it holds. Back in 2004 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed Linux violated 228 patents (it turned out that his data was based on a misunderstanding of a PUBPAT report).

Then in 2007, Microsoft told Forbes that Linux and “open source” in general violated 235 patents, the breakdown of which was as follows:

  • 42 in the Linux kernel
  • 65 in the Linux graphical user interfaces violated 65
  • 45 in Open Office
  • 15 violations in free or open source email apps
  • 65 other random violations

Microsoft used this as a lever against Linux companies to get them to sign up to patent protection and licensing deals.

Why has Microsoft chosen to target TomTom? I’ll be honest and say I’m not sure. Linux has seen very rapid adoption by consumer device manufacturers because the OS is cheap, so I guess any vendor that hadn’t signed up to the patent protection and licensing deals was fair game. Microsoft had to start somewhere …

I get the feeling this is going to get ugly.

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No way
Altotus 21st Mar 2009
Thats my patent! Call the lawyers!
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Simply put, Linux is threatening Microsoft's proprietary model of extracting profits. Others have put it another way: Linux is a disruptive technology: one that overturns the traditional way of doing business up to the point where Linux came on the scene. Like any cornered rat, or monopoly, Microsoft will scratch claw and bite at anything that it believes will assist it to survive and keep its profits intact. And that is what we are now seeing. Remember, Microsoft always, always, ALWAYS has one aim in mind: survive no matter what the cost and keep the money rolling in. It does not matter if Microsoft damages USA innovation, lateral thinking and success in other areas, as long as it survives and keeps its money. As long as Microsoft controls and makes obscene profits, who cares ? The problem is however, that Microsoft does NOT control what the rest of the world is doing, and they have realised the dangers of monopoly control. Unless Microsoft is stopped, the USA runs the real danger of losing its cutting edge in IT development and innovation, and I for one would not like to see that either. But then, what would I know ? I just watch and comment on what I can see from the outside........and it is not pretty.
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There is one more aspect that would make the Vole.......ooops, sorry, would make Microsoft tread very, very carefully. IBM is backing Linux and open source. Given that fact, and the patent war-chest now held by various bodies friendly to open source, Microsoft may find itself in a very nasty patent war which I am sure it cannot win and frankly, I don't think it is in anyone's interests in the current economic climate to go into expensive litigation. But then it is also difficult to work out how a cornered rat's processes work.....so the Vole could actually go for broke........I doubt it though. Look to see this settled and Linux left out of the deal - completely.
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Well said.
Amelioration 26th Feb 2009
It's up to citizens to outclass its sh*tty "business leaders", unless you always want to live in a backwards and ignored island that the rest of us just laugh at.

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I was going to send a response
happyharry_z 26th Feb 2009
Then I realized it would be wasted here. So in short: MS is abusing power; Linux runs on free labor and these people are going to need to earn a living at some point; Linux shifts the money from the OS maker to the legions of consultants; in the end the price is not better for most shops.
Get real. The only cost change is not paying for the OS VS paying for the
OS. You still have a legion of consultants and programmers and
designers and engineers to deal with regardless of using an embedded
Windows or Linux or Greenhill or ...
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It seems what Microsoft is doing is akin to what the Mafia would do: pay me money or "accidents" (litigation) are going to happen. If anything, I'd tell Microsoft to go forth and multiply simply because of this fact; no one that's had to pay protection money has had good experiences with it.
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Well said superbus
elderlybloke 26th Feb 2009
Much more polite than what I muttered when I read about this.

I will say that Monkeyman could well have a higher form of life residing in his descending colon.
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NOT TRUE!
914four 26th Feb 2009
The major difference is that if you don't like your current *nix vendor you have an option to move to another. Microsoft has the highest cost to exit of any environment, once you have invested it is very difficult to move to other platforms so you are in effect locked in. The reason I have gotten fed up with them is because in the end they were significantly more expensive for most solutions over time. My customers trust me to give them solid advice, I can't in good conscience recommend Microsoft for many of them.
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Hear hear
GOTBO 27th Feb 2009
They are not only significantly more expensive over time, but increasingly their products are simply not fit for purpose compared with all the alternatives. Vista are Internet Exoplorer are classic examples. Extracting yourself from this mess can be a slow and painful experience, but I know of no one that has looked back once they've made the transition. This is the problem facing Microsoft. There are real alternatives these days and they don't have the products to fight back with, so they are now resorting to dirty tricks.
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Free labour?
Uncle Stoat 2nd Mar 2009
I don't know about you, but I am paid quite well to implement code on Linux ($60k+)

It's in my employer's interest to use open source and to contribute modifications back to the open source pool. The whole is far greater than the sum of its parts - and a LOT cheaper than proprietary solutions as well as (perhaps paradoxically) being less buggy and better supported than many of the older proprietary solutions we used to use with 5-6 figure support contracts.

There isn't a competition issue - if our competitors use opensource (GPL) they must contribute back to the pool too.

The biggest problem with opensource comes when outfits breach licensing conditions by selling modified GPL code without contributing those parts back. (This is common among set-top TV decoders and DVR manufacturers)

If they are using GPL code and distribute their modified code without disclosure, that becomes a simple case of software piracy - however the problem at the moment is that it's hard to prosecute such cases (but it has happened, Dlink had their asses spanked in German courts 2 years ago).

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And one more thing......IBM and others
windozefreak 26th Feb 2009
Linux is already out of the deal; they are not suing Linux. This case will be decided on the merits of this case, not some prior or futher dealings. I don't think IBM is going to expend its resources defending this or any other patent violations, unless it is a suit against them. Of course, I could be wrong. In any case I'll bet Microsoft will win this. Any odds?
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Where have you been lately?
Intellihence Updated - 26th Feb 2009
I don't know if anyone recalls, but I.B.M. has opened up its PATENT
PORTFOLIO to protect Linux & FOSS. I wonder who has more patents?
Microsoft with it's Intertwined Exploiter, or my BIG BROTHER, I.B.M. Long
live International Business Machines.

"In a world without walls & fences, who needs windows & gates?"
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Greetings intellihence
elderlybloke 26th Feb 2009
You have forgetten how IBM behaved in the early days of PCs.

They were very much like Microsoft is now.
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Yes, they indeed were.
bswiss 28th Feb 2009
And they eventually suffered the painful consequences.

But they were able to adapt and changed their ways; they learned their lesson, and now are much more in tune with their customers and clients wants and needs -- they are respected for their ability to deliver solutions, rather than for their power to inflict pain.

The real questions is whether Microsoft can do the same.
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They still are
A.Sinic 1st Mar 2009
Who is under anti-trust investigation for their mainframe business?

IBM likes open source because it helps them sell (endless) consulting time. But suggest something that lets others compete in their home markets (like mainframes), and watch the shutters come down fast.
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There are excellent discussions now out on what the suit is going to mean for both Linux and Microsoft. What everybody is missing is that:

1. Are now in a "post Bilski" world.....software patents no longer have the validity that they once had. To see why, check out this current article:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090226070041454

2. Prior art is almost certainly going to be used to destroy the suit anyway. Andy Updegrove and his technology law firm have put out a large summary of the situation.Check this out:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090226062840462

Frankly, from where I see it at the moment, Microsoft may very likely be playing with fire and will lose far more than they win, if they win anything at all. The opinions from two major players in the legal arena strongly suggest that Microsoft's patents will ultimately be rendered totally invalid. The situation remains fascinating.
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Good post
914four 26th Feb 2009
I agree
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Outstanding post!
bbaston@... 27th Feb 2009
What's referenced in the parent post is far more informative than the original article. TomTom knows that software patents are all but extinct. So does Microsoft.

It's amazing to watch a behemoth continue to entangle itself in classic monopoly defenses rather than to simply address its customer's desires and needs for universal access to data and true interoperability.

Even if - through the power of money over justice - Microsoft wins in court, they accelerate their loss in customer confidence. This one has to be for stockholders blinded by a [misguided] hope for short-term gain.
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Two birds with one stone.
bswiss 28th Feb 2009

The Linux related part appears to be over use of vfat file format -- another case of a brain-dead obvious, simple-minded kludge that should never have received a patent grant in the first place.

Microsoft's first aim here is to make sure that any and every company making consumer electronic products, that by are by default able to interface with the currently dominant Windows desktop platform, has to pay MS a tax for the "privilege" of simply reading and writing to an obsolete, lowest-common-denominator file format.

They don't even have to win a legal judgment, if they can make an example of Tom-Tom that other consumer electronics manufactures are loathe to emulate. Remember that quite recently NTP managed to litigate and coerce RIM (aka Blackberry) out of over $600 MILLION (and years of court costs) over patents that were, in the end, invalidated even while the case was still in court. So Tom-Tom may well lose regardless of the merits of its position, or else be beaten into the ground by the burden of fighting Microsoft in an interminable and ruinously expensive court battle.

Microsoft's second aim is of course to create ammunition for an arsenal of "precedents" for future legal claims that Linux somehow infringes on MS's "innovative technologies". For the time being MS spokesmen find it convenient to pretend otherwise, despite MS's many previous comments and recent about Linux infringing on their "Intellectual Property".

If Microsoft should fail to win either or both goals, they can still maintain the convenient fiction that this action wasn't about Linux at all, and that their anti-Linux patent claims are completely unaffected by the results. However, if MS should happen to defeat Tom-Tom in court, and the court agrees that Tom-Tom's Linux implementation of vfat filesystem-format access infringes Microsoft's patents, you can be quite sure that Microsoft will change it's tune.
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Patents seem too broad
Dr. John 26th Feb 2009
Looking at the patents they're claiming have been violated, they seem waaaaaaaaaaaaay too broad. They might as well have patented "a receptacle for the personal transport of coffee from the dispenser to the mouth", aka the coffee cup. Have you looked at these things???!!!!!!
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The much more likely explanation
frgough 26th Feb 2009
is that Linux, the "me too" operating system actually has infringed on a
number of Microsoft patents.
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Then point them out....
storm14k 26th Feb 2009
...and stop threatening. Its as simple as that. They don't want to because they know they will simply be removed or recoded.
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Is that not what they are attempting to do
GuidingLight Updated - 26th Feb 2009
if both Microsoft and Tom Tom where in negotiations for a year, it sounds as though there may be validity to Microsoft's case, hence now having to use the court systems.

You do not negotiate over nothing.
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n0neXn0ne Updated - 26th Feb 2009
see below

^o^

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your link is dead
rtk 26th Feb 2009
maybe you should consider not linking to your own posts, many of which are offtopic or offensive enough to get deleted.
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!dead!
n0neXn0ne Updated - 26th Feb 2009
"...posts, many of which are offtopic or offensive... ."

Try your compatibly mode. grin

^o^
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I don't call being bugged by a salesrep 'negotiating'.
No More Microsoft Software Ever! 26th Feb 2009
Negotiating requires participation from both parties. Tom Tom hanging the phone up each time Microsoft tried to strong arm them is not negotiation.
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For once you're right!
de-void-21165590650301806002836337787023 27th Feb 2009
"Negotiating requires participation from both parties. Tom Tom hanging the phone up each time Microsoft tried to strong arm them is not negotiation."

It's corporate suicide. Just hoping that Microsoft will get bored and go off elsewhere would be a VERY foolish position to take.

Now, none of us here were involved in these discussions, but I think it safe to say that the truth shall be known in court when the case gets heard.
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Ignoring the bully does actually work.
No More Microsoft Software Ever! Updated - 27th Feb 2009
Remember Gandhi?
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Stop if at the source if its there. Like I said...they don't want to disclose them because they will be removed from the code if they exist to begin with.
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negotiations
tmsbrdrs 26th Feb 2009
From what I've seen both on CNet and here as well as every other article about MS patents when pertaining to Linux, they're BS.

Nobody has a list of which patents are being "infringed" upon for a very good reason. Those patents should never have been granted in the first place.
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Correction: m$ attempted extortion for a year
InAction Man Updated - 26th Feb 2009
but Tom Tom has always hold steady.

Now, to take revenge m$ is going to court. They no doubt will lose the case but Tom Tom will lose a lot of money defending against the patent trolls from redmond.
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Assuming they actually exist
GOTBO 27th Feb 2009
in the first place. If they had a real case why haven't they brought it to court? It's just SCO all over again. I can't see MS getting very far with this unless TomTom are too weak to stand up to them.
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Thank you!
rjacksix 26th Feb 2009
What an erudite and well thought out contribution to the conversation. Proving once again that anyone with a keyboard can show their brilliant acumen and enlighten humanity (sigh). (I know it shouldn't get to me but it does...what does this flaming comment contribute?)
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All softare "infringes" on everyone elses.
TripleII-21189418044173169409978279405827 26th Feb 2009
Windows, Solaris, OS-X, GPL V2/V3 all infringe all over the place. No piece of code more than 25 lines long fails to infringe on someone's bogus patent somewhere. Have you seen the "innovation" patented in the last 10 years?

Your comment "me too" operating system holds no water since, from the raw filesystem on up, Windows and Linux are completely alien to each other, in every respect. Unless you mean "me too" in that Linux is very *nix compliant.

TripleII
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Dear frgough,
elderlybloke 26th Feb 2009
Linux is derived from Unix isn't it?
Unix existed long before Bill and Monkeyman purchased the DOS operating system.
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Dear elderlybloke
de-void-21165590650301806002836337787023 27th Feb 2009
I thought you of all people would understand Linux's heritage.

Linus wrote Linux - the kernel - after tooling around with Minix for a while. He wrote Linux (the kernel) to provide a UNIX-like subsystem (originally tuned specifically for the 80386+) that UNIX apps could run on top of. To build Linux, he didn't need access to the (closed) source code.

FreeBSD/OpenBSD have a similar story, although they stayed truer to the original UNIX design and philosophy.

Other OSS vendors and communities have written their own interpretation of, or contributed the source that they owned to many parts of UNIX. e.g. GNU wrote BISON and FLEX as an OSS implementation of YACC and LEX. Same input files, same output files, no code licensing issues.

Many of these parts of UNIX will run fine on UNIX, BSD or Linux, but some will not. Some linux-based distro's include tools that are not included in others. Therefore, tools/apps that rely on these distro' specific features are not readily portable.

Bill & Steve did indeed purchase what would become PC-DOS and then MS-DOS. The original DOS that they purchased was vastly simpler and more limited than PC-DOS became (e.g. the file system had no notion of hierarchical folders), but did give them a kick-start.

And let's not forget - Windows today is based on NT - the first truly brand-new, newly-designed, written-fron-scratch OS created for MANY, MANY years.

Linux/BSD/OSX/BeOS were based largely on UNIX design and/or code.

DR's GEM was released around the same time as Apple's MacOS. The similarity between the two led to a heated lawsuit and court case.

Atari's TOS was based on DR's GEM (which was based on Xerox's Workbench) which ran on top of a DOS-like OS!

Commodore's Amiga Workbench was also based at least in part on GEM.

So, it's clear that NT, upon which Windows now thrives, really is one of the few truly innovative OS' in many decades.
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Actually...
914four Updated - 2nd Mar 2009
...Linux is to UNIX what NT is to DEC VMS, Windows 3.0 and Xerox Alto. While both ARE truly new OS's written from the ground up, they do have their inspiration in the older OS. Trust me, I was a beta tester for NT 3.1 (I still have the red, green, blue and gold beta CDs if anyone wants to buy a piece of history) and was laughed at by my UNIX counterparts when I claimed that NT would eventually displace UNIX in the datacenter. Unfortunately NT went downhill from 3.1 IMHO.
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Many Linux distros are far superior to MS Windows in many ways. It's MS who are seen as the 'me too' these days. e.g. Internet Explorer is struggling badly to keep up with the competition. Ubuntu knocks any of the MS desktops into a cocked hat. For too long they've been charging too much for too little and exploiting their dominant position, and they're finally being brought to task. What they failed to realise all these years is that if they simply produced top quality software at an appropriate price they wouldn't need to use dirty tricks to maintain a majority market share position. That's probably why MS are doing all this sabre rattling. They're a wounded cornered animal being attacked from all sides. We can expect more bloodshed before all this is over.
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Hey, 2002 Called...
awasson@... 4th Mar 2009
They want their FUD back wink

Seriously, where have you been? Obviously with your head buried in MS stuff. There is nothing in the OS world that is truly original and hasn't been ince the 80's. The theory behind MS OS's is ancient as is Unix, Linux, BeOS, etc... One thing that has been proven in the courts is that Linux doesn't owe anyone... Not Unix, not SCO, and not MS.

MS is going to have to do more than posture to prove it's point... Perhaps they could concentrate their efforts on making a decent operating system for a change.
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So you ar saying that Tom Tom
GuidingLight 26th Feb 2009
is a cornered rat?

Seriouslly, I do not see this as an issue to Microsoft beyond their stolen patents.

Was Windows ever to be the underlying operating system? No.

But yet if you agree that open code in Linux is not allowed to be used in proprietary software, then you must agree that closed patented proprietary code should not be allowed into open source.

This can not be a one way street.
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Put up or shut up...
Solid Water Updated - 26th Feb 2009
This becomes another flame war.

I am reading ZDNET for many years.

Go back and read MS claims on Linux patents from previous years.

Already did? Then good for you - you got it: no patent was ever named.

Therefore this is the same bullying MS tactics (more like a strategy now). sad
They've said more than such.
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the War that will come out of this will be costly for all players and in a recession its just plain suicidal to do.


Without linux Its back to square one with anti-trust.
Too many people now support Linux
Dell,Hp ,Ibm ,Google , and the rest .....

Also lets not forget now there more alternative that 5 years ago ...
Open solaris
Bsd ( was there but was not a real choice )

If MS is stupid enough to kick the hornet nest ... they will feel it bad
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And kicking a hornet's nest
GuidingLight 26th Feb 2009
will leave the hornets homeless when done correctly.

Are you saying that in this economy, that Microsoft should allow others to infringe on their patents?

Would you then say that in this economy, those in the Linux community should allow others to emmbed their open source code into proprietary software?
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As for the hornet nest it was a image
Quebec-french 26th Feb 2009
im not saying that MS should not do something just be very careful how they do it.And who they pick on ... its could only start a holy war again MS ......

As far as in this economy with netbook using as lot of linux .... MS brand loosing ground.

In this economic situation some people will try to say as much as possible ....

Remember the best way to get ride of a hornet nest is at night with a large plastic bag. you put the bad over the nest and spray poison in the bag.


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HP just anounced...
914four 26th Feb 2009
...that they will now support Solaris on their Proliants.
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# HP DV2000 [Gentoo Linux]
# HP dv2000 [Fedora Core 6]
# HP DV2000 [Ubuntu 64 bits] (in english)
# HP DV2000t [Debian,Gentoo]
# HP dv2000t [openSUSE 10.2]
# HP dv2000t [Slackware 11.0 and Ubuntu 6.06]
# HP dv2120us [Debian Etch]
# HP dv2120us [Debian unstable]
# HP dv2125 [Fedora Core 6 x86_64]
# HP dv2172ea [Debian Family] (in Italian)
# HP dv2220la [Opensuse 10.3] (in Espa?ol/English)
# HP DV2352 [Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn]
# HP dv2415nr [Ubuntu 7.2]
# HP DV2422LA [Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron] (in Spanish)
# HP DV2530ee [UbuntuStudio 7.04 Feisty Fawn]
# HP DV2610US [Suse 10.3 64 bits]
# HP dv2910us [Mint]
# HP DV4000 [Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 3 Prerelease]
# HP dv5000 [Ubuntu Dapper] (in Italian)
# HP dv5000 [Ubuntu The Edgy Eft] (in Italian)
# HP dv5224nr [Kanotix ]
# HP dv5247eu [openSUE 10.2]
# HP dv6000 [slamd64 (unofficial slackware for 64 bits)]
# HP dv6018 [ArchLinux64] **NEW**
# HP dv6057ea [Debian Etch] (in German) **NEW**
# HP dv6120br [Slackware 12] (in Portuguese) **NEW**
# HP DV6125se [Feisty 64bits] (in Portuguese)
# HP dv6133eu [Ubuntu 6.10] (in German) **NEW**
# HP dv6327ca []
# HP dv6383eu [Hardy Heron (beta)]
# HP dv6420la [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)] (in Spanish)
# HP dv6690el [ubuntu gutsy gibbon] (in Italian)
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# HP dv6690el [Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex] (in Italian)
# HP DV8000 [Fedora Core 5]
# HP dv8000 [Fedora Core 6]
# HP dv8000t [Fedora Core 5]
# HP dv8491ea [Fedora Core 5]
# HP dv9000t [Mandriva 2008 FREE]
# HP DV 9000t [Fedora Core 6]
# HP dv9000t [Fedora Core 6]
# HP dv9000z [Mandriva 2007 Powerpack] **NEW**
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# HP dv9001ea [Ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake] (in French)
# HP dv9013z [Fedora Core 6]
# HP DV9200 CTO [Gentoo]
# HP dv9396ea [ubuntu 7.10]
# HP DV9410US [Debian GNU/Linux (testing)]
# HP dv9500t [Gentoo]
# HP EliteBook 8530p [Kubuntu 8.10 (Interpid)] (in German)
# HP G6030EM [PCfluxboxOS]
# HP G6031EA [Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)]
# HP HDX 9050 [Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon] (in German)
# HP HP530 [Fedora 8]
# HP HP 550 [Debian GNU/Linux] (in Italian/English)
# HP HP Compaq 6715b [Debian] **NEW**
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# HP HP Compaq nx6120 [Gentoo 2008.0-r1]
# HP HP Compaq NX8220 [Slackware 10.1]
# HP HP Compaq NX8220 [Slackware 10.1]
# HP hp compaq nx 9030 [fedore core 3]
# HP HP dv6815nr [Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron i386]
# HP HP dv9500t CTO [Fedora Core 8, Vista Home Pro, XP Pro]
# HP HP Pavilion 6750br [Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)] (in Portuguese (Brazilian))
# HP HP Pavilion DV6203ea [SuSE 10.2] (in German)
# HP HP Pavilion dv6263us [Debian Etch 4.0r1]
# HP HP Pavilion tx 1230la Notebook [Ubuntu 8.10] (in Espa?ol)
# HP HP PAVILLION ZE 2410br [SUSE 10.1]
# HP L2000 [Zenwalk]
# HP L2000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP L2000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP L2000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP L2000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP L2000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP L2000 [Fedora Core 5]
# HP L2000 [KANOTIX64]
# HP nc4000 [SuSE 9.0,9.1,9.2]
# HP nc4000 [Ubuntu]
# HP nc4000 [Debian]
# HP NC4010 [PLD Linux]
# HP nc6000 [Fedora Core 3]
# HP NC6000 [Kubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger]
# HP nc6000 [Redhat]
# HP nc6120 [Debian]
# HP nc6120 [Fedora Core 5]
# HP nc6220 [Ubuntu Breezy]
# HP NC6400 [Kubuntu edgy]
# HP NC6400 [Debian GNU/Linux etch beta3 ]
# HP nc6400 [Kubuntu 7.04] (in German)
# HP nc6400 [Kubuntu 7.10]
# HP nc6400 [Fedora]
# HP nc6400 [Fedora]
# HP NC8000 [Fedora Core 3]
# HP nc8000 [SuSE 9.1]
# HP nc8000 [Debian]
# HP nc8430 [Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)]
# HP nc8430 [SUSE 10.1]
# HP nw8000 [Fedora Core 2]
# HP nw8000 [Ubuntu,Debian]
# HP nw8000 [Fedora Core 3]
# HP nx 6110 [Debian] (in Italian)
# HP nx6110 [ubuntu]
# HP nx6110 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP nx6110 [Fedora Core 6]
# HP NX6110 [Debian Sarge] (in German)
# HP nx6110 [SUSE 9.3 SUSE 10.1] (in German)
# HP nx6110 [SuSE-Linux 9.3 & 10.1] (in German)
# HP NX6110, NC6120, NC6220 [Generic]
# HP nx6125 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP nx6125 [gentoo] (in German)
# HP nx6125 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP nx6125 [Fedora Core]
# HP NX6125 [debian/ubuntu/gentoo] (in English/spanish)
# HP NX6125 [debian SARGE] (in English, GERMAN (DEUTSCH))
# HP NX6125 [SuSE 10.0]
# HP nx6310 [Debian]
# HP nx6310 [Ubuntu 6.06] (in German)
# HP nx6325 [Debian 4.0]
# HP nx6325 [Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron] (in German)
# HP nx7000 [Debian]
# HP nx7010 [Fedora Core 2]
# HP nx7010 [Debian]
# HP nx7400 [Ubuntu]
# HP NX7400 [Ubuntu]
# HP nx7400 [Fedora Core 6]
# HP nx8220 [Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)]
# HP nx8220 [] (in Italian)
# HP nx8220 [SuSE Linux 10.1]
# HP nx9005 [Debian] (in Poland)
# HP nx9005 [Gentoo]
# HP nx9010 [Fedora Core 2]
# HP nx9030 [Debian Sarge] (in Fran?ais)
# HP NX9105 [Mandrake 10.0] (in Turkish)
# HP nx9105 [SuSE 9.1] (in Turkish)
# HP nx9105 [Gentoo]
# HP nx9105 [Mandrake 10.0, SuSE 9.1] (in Turkish)
# HP nx9105 [Gentoo]
# HP nx9110 [Mandrake 10.0]
# HP nx9110 [Mandriva linux] (in French)
# HP nx9420 [Ubuntu 7.10] **NEW**
# HP OmniBook 3100 [SuSE5.3]
# HP OmniBook 4000C [Generic]
# HP OmniBook 4000CT [Debian] (in German)
# HP OmniBook 4100 [SuSE7.0]
# HP OmniBook 4150B [Generic]
# HP OmniBook 4150 [RedHat6.2,RedHat7.1,RedHat7.3,RedHat8.0]
# HP OmniBook 4150 [BeaFanatIX (BFX) (Debian/Ubuntu based)]
# HP OmniBook 4150 [Generic]
# HP OmniBook 4150 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 500 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 500 [SuSE8.0]
# HP OmniBook 500 [RedHat7.1]
# HP OmniBook 510 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 510 [Slackware8.1]
# HP OmniBook 5500CS [SuSE5.0]
# HP OmniBook 5500CT [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 5500CT [Generic]
# HP OmniBook 5700CTX [Slackware8.1] (in Polish)
# HP OmniBook 6000 [RedHat7.x]
# HP OmniBook 6000 [Mandrake8.0]
# HP OmniBook 6000 [RedHat6.2]
# HP OmniBook 6000 [Debian] (in English / German)
# HP OmniBook 6000 [Generic]
# HP OmniBook 600 [Slackware3.0]
# HP OmniBook 6100 [Generic]
# HP OmniBook 6100 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 6100 [Slackware8.0]
# HP OmniBook 7100 [RedHat]
# HP OmniBook 800CT [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 800CT [Slackware 10.1]
# HP OmniBook 800CT [RedHat6.2]
# HP OmniBook 800CT [RedHat7.1]
# HP OmniBook 800 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook 900 [SuSE6.3]
# HP OmniBook XE2 [Generic]
# HP OmniBook XE3-GF [Fedora Core 4] (in Polish (Polski))
# HP OmniBook XE3-GF [Ubuntu 8.10]
# HP OmniBook XE3 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook XE3 [SuSE8.0]
# HP OmniBook XE3 [Slackware8.0]
# HP OmniBook XE3 [RedHat7.1,SuSE7.1,Debian] (in German)
# HP OmniBook XE3 [SuSE7.2,SuSE8.0] (in German)
# HP OmniBook XE3 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook xe4100 [Debian] (in German)
# HP OmniBook XE4100 [Mandrake8.2,Mandrake9.0,Mandrake9.1]
# HP OmniBook XE4500 [Redhat 7.3]
# HP OmniBook XE4500 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook XE4500 [RedHat7.3]
# HP OmniBook XE4500 [FedoraCore1]
# HP OmniBook XE4500 [RedHat8.0,RedHat9.0,SuSE9.0]
# HP OmniBook XE 4500 [RedHat8.0]
# HP OmniBook XE4500 [RedHat7.3,RedHat9.0,FedoraCore1,Mandrake9.1]
# HP OmniBook XE [FedoraCore1]
# HP OmniBook XT1000 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook XT1000 [SuSE8.0]
# HP OmniBook XT1000 [Debian]
# HP omniBook xt1000s [Mandrake 9.1]
# HP OmniBook XT1500 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook XT1500 [Debian] **NEW**
# HP OmniBook XT6200 [Debian]
# HP OmniBook XT6200 [Ubuntu] (in German) **NEW**
# HP OmniBook ZT1000 [RedHat8.0]
# HP Pavilion 6646us [Kubuntu 8.04]
# HP Pavilion 9230us []
# HP Pavilion dv1010ca [Debian]
# HP Pavilion dv1067 [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion DV1156cl [Kubuntu] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion dv1265EA [SUSE 9.3]
# HP Pavilion dv1597ea [Ubuntu 6.06 Beta]
# HP Pavilion DV 1740br [Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)] (in Portuguese) **NEW**
# HP Pavilion dv2029ea [Debian Etch/Sid]
# HP Pavilion dv2120BR [Debian Etch] (in Brazilian Portuguese)
# HP Pavilion dv2172ea [Debian family] (in Italian) **NEW**
# HP Pavilion DV2172 [Kubuntu Feisty Fawn]
# HP Pavilion DV2215 [Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion dv2415nr [Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn]
# HP Pavilion dv2610us [Open Suse 10.3 64 bbits.]
# HP Pavilion dv2715nr [Debain Testing]
# HP Pavilion DV2755SE [Kubuntu 7.10/8.04]
# HP Pavilion DV4017EA [Debian Sarge 3.1]
# HP Pavilion dv5000 dv5137EU [(K)Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion dv5003cl [Ubuntu Dapper]
# HP Pavilion DV5008EA [Slackware 10.2] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv5027ea [Debian etch, Ubuntu Dapper] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv5099EA [SUSE 10.0]
# HP Pavilion dv5 1030er [Debian] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion dv5-1125nr [Fedora 8]
# HP Pavilion DV5137EU [Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (64 bits PC)]
# HP Pavilion dv5171 [Kubuntu]
# HP Pavilion DV5175EA [Ubuntu 6.06]
# HP Pavilion dv5178us [Xubuntu 6.06]
# HP Pavilion dv5194ea [Kubuntu 6.06]
# HP Pavilion dv5200TX [Ubuntu Feisty Fawn]
# HP Pavilion dv5280ea [SUSE 10.1]
# HP Pavilion DV5285ea [Ubuntu Edgy Eft]
# HP Pavilion dv6000 [Ubuntu] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion dv6000 [MInt]
# HP Pavilion dv6000z [Fedora Core 6]
# HP Pavilion dv6110us [CentOS]
# HP Pavilion dv6119us [Ubuntu Gutsy] (in Portuguese)
# HP Pavilion dv6128ea [Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion dv6137ea [Ubuntu Edgy]
# HP Pavilion DV6150br [Kubuntu 7.04]
# HP Pavilion dv6162ea [Kubuntu 6.10] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv6179ea [ArchLinux 0.8]
# HP Pavilion dv6208nr [Ubuntu 6.10]
# HP Pavilion dv6215ea [Ubuntu 7.04]
# HP Pavilion dv6220la []
# HP Pavilion dv6227cl [Sabayon]
# HP Pavilion dv6230ea [openSUSE 10.2]
# HP Pavilion dv6258SE [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion dv6258se [Slackware 11.0]
# HP Pavilion dv6258se [Ubuntu 7.10]
# HP Pavilion DV6270EU [Debian Lenny] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv6305us [Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy] (in Ukrainian)
# HP Pavilion Dv6359ea [ubuntu feisty] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion DV6409US [PCLinuxOS]
# HP Pavilion DV6436NR [Ubuntu 7.10] (in spanish) **NEW**
# HP Pavilion dv6507el [Arch linux 64] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion DV6520ea [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion dv6636nr [Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion dv6636nr [Fedora 8 x86_64]
# HP Pavilion dv6650ee [Fedora 8 64-bit]
# HP Pavilion DV6695EL [debian gnu/linux] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv6715el [Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv6715el [Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 32 & 64 bit] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion dv6810us [Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion dv6835nr [openSUSE 11.0]
# HP Pavilion dv6835nr [Ubuntu 8.04]
# HP Pavilion dv6855el [openSUSE 10.3/11.0]
# HP Pavilion DV6xxx DV2xxx DV 9xxx Intel [Ubuntu] (in Italian) **NEW**
# HP Pavilion dv8233ea [Kubuntu Linux 6.10] (in English, German)
# HP Pavilion dv8233ea [Kubuntu 6.06]
# HP Pavilion dv9000 [Mandriva 2007]
# HP Pavilion dv9010us(EZ453UA) [Fedora Core 6]
# HP Pavilion dv9200 CTO [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion DV9225US [Fedora Core 6]
# HP Pavilion dv9310us [Fedora 10 x86_64]
# HP Pavilion DV9375eu [Fedora 7] (in German)
# HP Pavilion DV9375eu [Fedora 7]
# HP Pavilion dv9543cl [CentOS 5]
# HP Pavilion dv9610us [Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion N3110 [Mandrake 7.0]
# HP Pavilion N3250 [RedHat7.3] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion N3270 [RedHat6.2]
# HP Pavilion N3390 [RedHat6.2,RedHat7.0,Mandrake7.2]
# HP Pavilion N5170 [Mandrake]
# HP Pavilion N5190 [Mandrake8.0]
# HP Pavilion N5210 [RedHat7.1]
# HP Pavilion N5250 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion N5390 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion N5415 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion N5422 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion N5422L [Debian]
# HP Pavilion N5430 [RedHat7.2] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion N5450 [RedHat7.2,RedHat8.0] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion N5470 [RedHat7.2,Debian]
# HP Pavilion N5472 [RedHat7.2]
# HP Pavilion sv5120us [SuSE 9.3]
# HP Pavilion tx1000z [Fedora 7]
# HP Pavilion tx2020 [Ubuntu 8.04 LTS]
# HP Pavilion XF125 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion XF335 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion XH136 [SuSE7.3]
# HP Pavilion XH136 [RedHat7.1,RedHat7.2,RedHat8.0]
# HP Pavilion XH485 [Mandrake8.1,SuSE7.3]
# HP Pavilion XT345 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion zd7000 [FreeBSD 6.0]
# HP Pavilion zd7000 [Ubuntu 5.04]
# HP Pavilion zd7000 [Fedora Core 3] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion zd7010 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZD7020 [Gentoo1.4]
# HP Pavilion zd7045 [Debian] (in French)
# HP Pavilion zd7141EA [Slackware 10.0]
# HP Pavilion zd7168cl [Slackware 10.0]
# HP Pavilion zd8000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP Pavilion zd8000 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion zd8185ea [Mandriva]
# HP Pavilion ZE1110 [RedHat7.2,RedHat7.3,Mandrake8.1,Slackware8.1,Gentoo1.2]
# HP Pavilion ZE1110 [Slackware8.1.1]
# HP Pavilion ZE1115 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE1115 [Fedora Core 2]
# HP Pavilion ZE1115 [Redhat 7.3]
# HP Pavilion ZE1115 [RedHat7.3]
# HP Pavilion ZE1141 [RedHat7.1]
# HP Pavilion ZE1150 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion ZE1195 [Generic]
# HP Pavilion ZE1210 [RedHat8.0,Mandrake9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE1230 [RedHat7.3]
# HP Pavilion ZE1230 [Linspire 5.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE1230 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP Pavilion ZE1230 [Gentoo,Debian,RedHat7.3,Mandrake9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE1250 [RedHat7.3]
# HP Pavilion ZE1270 [Slackware8.1,Slackware9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE2108WM [Fedora Core 4]
# HP Pavilion ZE2308wm [Suse 9.3] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion ZE2315us [Fedora Core 4]
# HP Pavilion ZE2315us [Knoppix 4.x/ SUSE 10.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE2315us [Knoppix]
# HP Pavilion ZE2315us [SUSE 10.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE2315us [Ubuntu 6.10]
# HP Pavilion ZE2344 [VectorLinux (Generic)]
# HP Pavilion ZE3000 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE3200 [FedoraCore1]
# HP Pavilion ZE4125 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE4130 [Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)]
# HP Pavilion ZE4145 [RedHat9.0,SuSE9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE4200 [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion ZE4201 [RedHat9.0,FedoraCore1,FedoraCore2]
# HP Pavilion ZE4234s [Mandrake9.1] (in French)
# HP Pavilion ZE4234s [Mandrake10.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE4262 [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE4274s [Slackware 10.0] (in Bosnian)
# HP Pavilion ZE4274s [Slackware 10.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE4281 [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion ZE4288 [Mandrake 10.0] (in Spanish)
# HP Pavilion ZE4300 [SuSE8.2]
# HP Pavilion ZE4300 [Slackware9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE4318ea [FedoraCore1]
# HP Pavilion ZE4325us [RedHat9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE4360 [RedHat8.0,Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE4416ea [Fedora Core 2] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion ZE4417ea [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE4420us [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion ZE4420us [Mandrake9.1,Mandrake9.2]
# HP Pavilion ZE4423ea [Mandrake 10.1]
# HP Pavilion ZE4427WM [Mandriva 2005LE]
# HP Pavilion ZE4427wm [Mandrake 10.1]
# HP Pavilion ZE4430US [Fedora Core 3]
# HP Pavilion ZE4560us [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE4610us [PLD]
# HP Pavilion ZE4610us [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZE4805us [Fedora Core 2]
# HP Pavilion ZE4900 [Generic] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion ZE5155 [RedHat8.0,Mandrake] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion ZE5165 [RedHat8.0,Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion ZE5170 [RedHat9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE5185 [Mandrake9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE5343ea [RedHat9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE5354ea [Slackware 10.0, RedHat 8.0, RedHat 9.0, Mandrake 9.2]
# HP Pavilion ZE5375us [Mandrake9.1,Mandrake9.2]
# HP Pavilion ZE5385 [RedHat9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZE5500 [Mandrake9.2,Gentoo1.4] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion ZE5511ea [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion ZE5517ea [Debian]
# HP Pavilion zi 4455ea [Debian]
# HP Pavilion ZT112 [SuSE7.2]
# HP Pavilion ZT1141s [Mandrake9.2]
# HP Pavilion ZT1145 [Gentoo] (in Portug?s)
# HP Pavilion ZT1170 [RedHat9.0]
# HP Pavilion ZT1170 [RedHat7.2]
# HP Pavilion ZT1190 [RedHat7.2]
# HP Pavilion ZT1195 [Mandrake9.1,Mandrake10.0]
# HP Pavilion ZT3000 [SuSE 9.1]
# HP Pavilion ZV5000 [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion ZV5000Z [Fedora Core 2]
# HP Pavilion ZV5131EA [Slackware 10.0] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion ZV5132EA [Ubuntu]
# HP Pavilion ZV5140EA [SuSE 9.1]
# HP Pavilion ZV5240CA [Slackware 10.0]
# HP Pavilion zv5260us [Debian]
# HP Pavilion zv5260us [Fedora Core 3] **NEW**
# HP Pavilion zv5340EA [Debian]
# HP Pavilion zv5340us [Fedora Core 3]
# HP Pavilion zv5404us [SuSE 9.1]
# HP Pavilion zv5405us [Slax 4.2.0 LiveCD, Ubuntu 5.04-AMD64 (Hoary)]
# HP Pavilion zv5405us [Ubuntu Edgy i386]
# HP Pavilion zv5422EA [Debian GNU/Linux] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion zv5460 [Slackware 11.0]
# HP Pavilion zv6000 [Gentoo]
# HP Pavilion zv6000 [Slamd64] (in Portuguese)
# HP Pavilion zv6000 [Pardus] (in Turkish)
# HP Pavilion zv6000 [Slamd64] (in Portuguese)
# HP Pavilion ZV6000 [Suse 9.3]
# HP Pavilion ZV6000 [Suse 9.3] (in German)
# HP Pavilion zv6000 [Debian Etch (amd64)]
# HP Pavilion zv6001 [Mandriva 2006] (in Dutch)
# HP Pavilion ZV6015us [Fedora Core 4]
# HP Pavilion zv6130us [Fedora Core]
# HP Pavilion zv6148EA [Gentoo 2005.1 (64-bit) ]
# HP Pavilion zv6251EA [Ubuntu Dapper Drake]
# HP Pavilion ZV6278EA [UBUNTU Feisty 7.04 , Kubuntu Feisty 7.04] (in Italian)
# HP Pavilion zx5280us [Debian]
# HP pavillion 5220 LA [SuSE Linux 10.3] (in Espa?ol--Spanish)
# HP Pavillion dv5220la [SuSE Linux 10.3]
# HP pavillion zv5307EA [Slackware 10.1]
# HP Pavillon DV5121 [Xubuntu Linux 6.06] (in French)
# HP Presario R3000 [Gentoo]
# HP TC1100 [Mandriva 2006]
# HP TC1100 [Ubuntu 7.10]
# HP tc4200 [Ubuntu]
# HP tc4400 [Arch Linux] **NEW**
# HP tc4400 [OpenSUSE]
# HP tx1000 [Mandriva one 2008] (in Spanish)
# HP us6105 [Gentoo 2006.1]
# HP xe 4100 [SuSE8.0] (in German) **NEW**
# HP zd7140us [Arch Linux] **NEW**
# HP zd7141EA [Slackware 10.0]
# HP zd7395ea [Ubuntu 7.04 using Wubi]
# HP zd8000 [Mandriva] (in French)
# HP zd8000 [Fedora Core 4]
# HP zd8000 [Debian Etch]
# HP zv5231ea [Debian, Knoppix]
# HP ZV5315EA [Slackware 10.2] (in French)
# HP zv5320 [Gentoo]
# HP zv5360us [Mandreva Limited Addition 2005]
# HP zv5405us [Slackware]
# HP zv5405us [Ubuntu]
# HP zv5410us [Debian]
# HP ZV 6000 [SUSE 10] (in French)
# HP zv6100 [Ubuntu]
# HP ZV6130us [Gentoo]
# HP zv6251EA [Ubuntu]
# HP zx5030EA [Fedora Core 3]
# HP zx5078cl [Kubuntu,Ubuntu,Mepis]

Maybe Microsoft is ticked after seeing that list?
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Wow , that sure is a big list.
Intellihence 26th Feb 2009
That looks like more than breakfast, lunch, & dinner for 20,000 Microsoft
employees. Come on everyone lets all dig in. It's time the entire world got
to have a decent meal back.

"In a world without walls & fences, who needs windows & gates?!"
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No way
Altotus 21st Mar 2009
Thats my patent! Call the lawyers!

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