[GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

[James Knott]

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.