From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 17 5:28:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A0C10F61 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 05:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@pechter.nws.net) Received: from pechter.nws.net (bg-tc-ppp749.monmouth.com [209.191.63.185]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA13471; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:28:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by pechter.nws.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) id IAA01348; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:28:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <199902171328.IAA01348@pechter.nws.net> Subject: IBM and Linux In-Reply-To: from Brett Taylor at "Feb 16, 1999 8:16:57 pm" To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:28:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 3.0-Stable X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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