Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yup...but the first COMMON after the announcement, all the IBM'ers were
flat out saying (albeit not on the record) that SuSE was what they
prefered by far...

Granted that was before Fedora, etc...so yeah, lots of things have
changed....



On Mon, 2 May 2005, 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
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