HP has long had a love/hate affair with Linux. On the one hand, HP has long supported Linux on servers. For example, they're the one major server company that supports Debian. On the other hand, it took HP forever to finally start shipping pre-installed desktop Linux. Recently, for business users anyway, HP has been making it a lot easier to get Linux on their desktops and servers.

On the server side, for example, HP and Canonical, the company that stands behind Ubuntu, just announced that the newest version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04 has been certified the new HP ProLiant G6 servers.

This is a list of vendors where you can buy a Linux server with Debian linux pre-installed. It's probably not complete but it does have some entries for worldwide locations.

Article describes the building of a home linux server from the ground up. The article describes components and reasons why they chose these specific components. In my opinion their choices are worth a discussion but it may provide useful for people looking for information about building a linux server.