Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.nws.net> To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: IBM and Linux Message-ID: <199902171328.IAA01348@pechter.nws.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902162015480.11437-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> from Brett Taylor at "Feb 16, 1999 8:16:57 pm"
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> Hi, > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > > > According to the article at > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,389494,00.html IBM is > > announcing that it will work with not one but SEVERAL distributors of > > Linux, pre-installing their distributions on PCs. But NOT A WORD about > > FreeBSD! Hello, Walnut Creek.... Can you say, "missed opportunity" > > here? > > And it doesn't say so in this article, but I've read elsewhere that > they're doing this on PowerPC based servers. Not a lot we can do if we > don't have a PowerPC port. > > Brett > ****************************************************************** > Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu > http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ The word is Netfinity Servers (x86) as well as Power PC boxes. Probably going to fill the OS/2 Warp Power PC niche as well as add another OS to the Netfinity. When I worked at IBM I remember some server PC's which used to ship with CD's for WinNT, OS/2 Warp Server, Netware 3.x and 4.x and SCO and all you had to do was order an install license key from IBM to load them. The boxes designed for OS/2 for PowerPC became low end AIX boxes (IDE Drive etc.). The higher end ones with SCSI were very nice AIX boxes. Looks like a reasonable thought. Linux would fill out a nice low end position for IBM without being as much of a political problem as pushing OS/2 against Microsoft. Linux is used inside IBM as a popular hobby os -- since FreeBSD had no token ring support. Bill --- Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.nws.net|pechter@pechter.ddns.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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