Overclock.net - An Overclocking Community - View Single Post - [Bloomberg] IBM to Acquire Linux Distributor Red Hat for $33.4 Billion

Overclock.net > Content Wrapper
Thread: [Bloomberg] IBM to Acquire Linux Distributor Red Hat for $33.4 Billion
View Single Post
post #26 of (permalink) Old 10-30-2018, 08:12 PM
Beagle Box
Linux Noob
 
Beagle Box's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: /home
Posts: 870
Rep: 41 (Unique: 37)
Quote: Originally Posted by EniGma1987 View Post
Microsoft has been pushing more and more into Linux the past couple of years, its quite possible Microsoft will buy Ubuntu and support it an an enterprise linux server OS. IBM and MS would be competing there. Microsoft knows they need some Linux support both to gain, and hold server marketshare.
This threatens Linux Mint.
If MS stays true to form, they'll buy Ubuntu and twist it into a linux component of a cross-platform One Windows™ model.
They'll develop linux versions of all their apps which will mysteriously work only on their distro.
I did Latty's Linux Challenge and I now run Linux!
The Beagle Box
(12 items)
▼
CPU
Intel Core i7 8086K
Motherboard
MSI Z370 Gaming M5
GPU
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming X 8GB
RAM
G.Skill Flare X 16GB 2 x 8GB DDR4-3200 PC4-25600 CL14 Dual Channel
Hard Drive
Samsung 960 EVO 500GB MLC V-NAND PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe M.2 2280 Internal SSD
Hard Drive
Samsung 970 Pro 512GB MLC NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive
Power Supply
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000P2 1000 Watt 80 Plus Platinum Modular ATX Power Supply
Cooling
Swiftech 220X2
Cooling
Corsair ML120 Pro White LED Magnetic Levitation 120mm Case Fan
Cooling
Corsair ML120 Magnetic Levitation 120mm Case Fan
Case
Corsair Vengeance C70
Operating System
Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.0
▲ hide details ▲
Beagle Box is offline  
Quote