Included in this article is a direct quote from an SCO employee to the effect that SCO code wouldn't have passed review by the other Linux kernel hackers.... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030529.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
* Steve Miller (doctor_clyde@yahoo.com) [030604 07:47]: ->Included in this article is a direct quote from an SCO ->employee to the effect that SCO code wouldn't have ->passed review by the other Linux kernel hackers.... -> ->http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030529.html Yeah but he makes one mistake about this whole IBM/SCO thing and Linux. He says " In question is the System 390 version of Linux, written by IBM. " when in fact it was SuSE who ported Linux to the S/390 Mainframe. They had hardware and support for this from IBM but it was SuSE who did it..hence SuSE being the only viable Linux port to run on these beasts. Other then that Cringely is one of the better pundits..but still a pundit nevertheless. ;) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Yeah but he makes one mistake about this whole IBM/SCO thing and Linux. He says " In question is the System 390 version of Linux, written by IBM. " when in fact it was SuSE who ported Linux to the S/390 Mainframe. They had hardware and support for this from IBM but it was SuSE who did it..hence SuSE being the only viable Linux port to run on these beasts.
Sorry Ben, but I beg to differ. Even though SuSE was an early adopter of
Linux/s390 and actively pushed the port forward, most of the kernel work
was done by IBM people in Boeblingen, Germany. SuSE just picked up the
work from IBM and continued from there, with lots of support from IBM.
Bye,
LenZ
- --
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
Lenz Grimmer
Ben Rosenberg
when in fact it was SuSE who ported Linux to the S/390 Mainframe. They had hardware and support for this from IBM but it was SuSE who did it..hence SuSE being the only viable Linux port to run on these beasts.
No, that's not true. The port to S/390, specially porting the basic core stuff like kernel, gcc, binutils and glibc was done by and is still maintained by people from IBM. SuSE's part was (and is :) mostly the classic distributor's work, i.e. package it all in one distribution together with an installation program, integrate patches/code drops from IBM and so on. Philipp
participants (4)
-
Ben Rosenberg -
Lenz Grimmer -
Philipp Thomas -
Steve Miller