This article claims that HP has "supposedly" been selling Linux Mandrake on the desktop for a while now. I'm not sure how true this is, but I do remember them coming out with a distribution heavily based on Mandrake. Translation of that is probably that they used Mandrake with an HP icon.

But that aside this article let's one thing be known that I hadn't seen yet. It seems that Mandrake submitted their plan to get out of the French version of chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. That's great news for the new Linux user.