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Bohlingen? I have never heard about such an IBM location. Maybe you meant Böblingen. That used to be a big research and development site since the days of punc
by usr1106 6y ago
Bohlingen? I have never heard about such an IBM location.
Maybe you meant Böblingen. That used to be a big research and development site since the days of punched cards until its shutdown was announced 2 years ago. They did a lot of zSystem stuff, no idea whether anything with SUSE.
Disclaimer: I was a trainee at another IBM research site long before Linux was invented. So I cannot reveal any internals about the topic.
- ghaff 6y agoI'm sure you're right which is why I couldn't confirm it on Google. Example: https://newsroom.ibm.com/Bringing-Linux-to-IBM-Z https://newsroom.ibm.com/Bringing-Linux-to-IBM-Z This is very politically partner-agnostic but a lot of the work was specifically around SUSE in the early days.
- usr1106 6y ago>This is very politically partner-agnostic Not really. Redhat and SUSE get named explicitly. Edit: Ubuntu, too.
- ghaff 6y agoWhat I meant was that it was really all about SUSE originally. Red Hat came later and AFAIK Ubuntu has never really been a material presence on IBM mainframes. No one else has ever mattered with respect to commercial Linux distributions that would run on a mainframe.
- Proven 6y agoThey indeed do, except that's complete bullshit. Wikipedia says first Ubuntu release was in 2004. In 1999 the first on Z were SLES and Turbolinux, and after that Red Hat came on board. Red Hat wasn't liked back then because they resisted standardization (see history of LSB).