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<div class="">On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:52, Ryan Novosielski <<a href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu" class="">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">True, officially, but often not officially. Again, back around 2008 I found it hilariously irritating. HP supported a lot of Debian activity in the background, and hosted quite a lot of the infrastructure. Officially, they only supported Red
Hat, but I discovered on a visit to Colorado Springs that they actually developed all their drivers using Debian, and then ported them to Red Hat!</div>
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<div class="">A year or two later, I remember noticing that the firmware update ISOs that HP distributed were also Debian-based. Even though they only distributed Red Hat RPMs on them. Duh!</div>
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