Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

[Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin Rowe wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 20:17, Don wrote:
>
> > Martin,
> >
> > interestingly enough, when iSeries/AS400 first started supporting linux,
> > Rochester was very adamant - SUSE ONLY! ....guess their tune's
> > changed....:)
>
>
> Hi Don
>
> It was SuSE (pre Novell days and the name change to SUSE) that got there 
> first with Linux on iSeries, and they seem to have kept up the lead. SLES 9 
> was the first ppc64 version with a 2.6 kernel. My impression was that RH 
> were a bit late to the party, but IBM wanted them there because to many 
> (again, mainly in the States) RedHat *is* Linux, and that's what customers 
> were asking for. 
>
> Regards, Martin

I'd agree to that; the people at my office always thought that RedHat = 
Linux.  I had to explain to them that Linux = Linux, and RedHat is just 
yet another commercial company trying to make some money.  Once I 
explained to them that there were other distributions that were A) free 
and B) just as good (if not better) than redhat, they let me go on my 
Debian tirade! :)

Pete


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