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>HP HOWTO:
Configuration Guide and Use of HP Products under Linux
(Version 0.94)</TH
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>&#13;
HP doesn't make a lot of noise in the free software world, even if it is an actor and also a user for its own IT infrastructure.
For example, all the incoming mail in HP goes through
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servers
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;; hp.com, type = MX, class = IN
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 50 cossmtp.hp.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 50 palsmtp.hp.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 20 postal.agilent.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 10 envelope.hp.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 10 letter.hp.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 20 stamp.agilent.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 30 cossmtpx.hp.com.
hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 50 atlsmtp.hp.com.
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Trying 192.151.10.4...
Connected to envelope.hp.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 envelope.hp.com ESMTP Postfix
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221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Trying 192.151.10.3...
Connected to letter.hp.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 letter.hp.com ESMTP Postfix
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221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Trying 192.6.9.3...
Connected to postal.agilent.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 postal.agilent.com ESMTP Postfix
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221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.</PRE
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>&#13;
Identically, for its institutional Web server, HP uses
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as more than 15 millions of other sites.
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--15:09:45-- http://www.hp.com:80/
=&#62; `index.html.1'
Connecting to www.hp.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
2 Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 13:12:25 GMT
3 Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.2
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(old-HP branch) uses also the free software
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for CAD as related at
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HP also worked on the improvement of the proxy-cache
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, as related at
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In another domain, HP produces also documents to help convincing to the use of Open Soure Software, as this HP Labs report available on
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A lot of HP people work on open source projects. They deserve a particular notice because, as in every open source project, their tenacious and constant comportment make these projects alive. Among them:&#13;</P
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>David Mosberger and St<53>phane Eranian</DT
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>&#13;
Port of the Linux kernel on IA-64
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>Grant Grundler, John S. Marvin and Paul Bame</DT
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Major contributor of the Linux kernel port on Pa-Risc
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>Jean Tourrilhes</DT
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>&#13;
Wireless Tools for Linux
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>John H. Oleinik and David Suffield</DT
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Projet HP imprimante jet d'encre
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>http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/</A
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>Dann Frazier</DT
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>SNMP++
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