BetaNews reported today that Hewlett-Packard plans to sell PCs running Linux across 37 countries in Latin America, and has selected Mandriva to provide the open source operating system. Mandriva says it will work with HP on sales, support and marketing in all Latin American territories, including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. HP will provide technical support in both Spanish and Portuguese.

This is a great news! For the first time a big company will sell PCs to the public with Linux installed. THIS IS A GOOD NEWS!