On 2020-05-20 10:31 PM, David Mason via talk wrote:
This is not news… except to me, but I thought the article might be interesting to someone.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24397193/ibm-red-hat/ <https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24397193/ibm-red-hat/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_pop&utm_medium=email&date=102918>
IIRC, IBM also had some involvement with SuSE a few years ago and ran it on their "big iron". Back in the late '90s, when I was working at IBM, I was on the distribution lists for various software and I'd frequently find packs of a few CDs in my mail slot. One of the lists I was on was for Linux and the pack would contain the various distros available at the time. In fact, I first started working with Linux at IBM, when I installed Mandrake on a ThinkPad, where it took a bit of effort to get it working with token ring. A co-worker was never able to get Debian going properly on a micro channel desktop system, again due to token ring issues. Linux didn't like token ring. ;-) My first Linux experience at home was a firewall, based on Slackware, though I had tried earlier setting up Yggdrasil, without much luck.