CNN LinuxWorld Preview

Sean kennedy sent us a link to an article over at CNN which is a brief Preview of LinuxWorld. Talks a bit about (and LinuxPPC porting) as well as Corel and Oracle.

IBM to port Red Hat to PPC, despite LinuxPPC ??

[CoffeeNowDammit]

Am I missing something here? IBM is
offering to port Linux to the PowerPC,
but the LinuxPPC folks have already done
just that. What's Big Blue up to??
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What's to say?

[SEE]

Coverage in the mainstream press is nothing new anymore, and nothing mentioned in the story is new, either. Oh, well.

IBM to port Red Hat to PPC, despite LinuxPPC ??

[tgeller]

I think what the earlier AC said about IBM porting "drivers and shit" is probably true. My prediction: IBM *is* going to use an existing PPC-based Linux, but also work to make sure there are no RS6000-specific bugs or gaps.

As for IBM coming out with their own distro... Hey, there's no reason they can't -- that's the beauty of the GPL! If that happens, I'd guess that IBM decided the two biggest existing PPC Linux distro companies (Prime Time Freeware and LinuxPPC Inc.) just don't have the resources to support them, and that it would be unwise to stake something this important on someone else's distro. I'd probably make the same decision, to tell the truth.

Interestingly, RedHat already sells mkLinux as part of its "Rough Cuts" CD . I'm curious to see whether their "port of RedHat" will be mkLinux or LinuxPPC. The envelope please...

--Tom Geller

Does anyone have some Castor oil?

[jerodd]

I need to vomit. Here are two quotes from the article that simply are causing convulsions in my gastrointestinal system:
GraphOn will unveil a Linux Playpen at the show for attendees to test
GraphOn's products that provide remote access to Linux applications from
Windows, Java, and multiuser NT systems.

GROAN! Why would anyone want to run Linux programs on a multiuser NT system? It just makes me ILL!

The playpen will feature Go-Between, a thin-client PC X-Windows server;
Go-Joe, a thin-client Java X-Windows server; and Go-Global, a thin-client
PC X-Windows server designed for low-bandwidth connection over the Internet.

Haven't these guys heard of LBX? It's probably all ripped off from the xc or XFree86 code, and it probably costs $100 or more a licence. Talk about abusing Linux—selling windows Xservers. YECK.

IBM will announce its intent to port Red Hat Linux to its PowerPC chip. The
company already said it will bundle the operating system with its servers.

DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE? Linux is already ported to the PowerPC. It already runs on the RS/6000!

If this is world domination, I don't want it. I'm about to run crying and screaming to my OS/2 diskettes, and perhaps take a sidetrip to the judgment La-Z-Boy of "Bob".

No cheers,
Joshua.

Does anyone have some Castor oil?

[jerodd]

Granted, I do the same thing (use MiX on NT). The point was ``integrating Linux programs with a multiuser NT system'' seems highly ironic. Multiuser NT??? Why spend $200 per user when you could just use Linux workstations, and run something like WinFrame with X on one NT machine?

It just makes me ill, seeing companies selling all this Windows software to ride the GNU/Linux wave.

Cheers,
Joshua.