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Red Hat OSes
[edit]@Brianreading:: given that other OSes that IBM didn't originally develop (PC-DOS, z/Linux, the Digital Research Concurrent DOS/FlexOS-based 4680 OS and 4690 OS) are listed here, RHEL and Fedora could also go here.
But does Fedora belong in the "Projects" section? Yes, it's produced by the "Fedora Project", but, unlike the other OSes there, it's neither a researchy project like K42, nor a project that eventually became part of mainstream Linux like Project Trillian, nor a project that was intended to be a commercial OS but that never came to fruition, like the others - it's very much a live, separate Linux distribution used in the real world. I might put it in the "Server, mainframe" and "Desktop, workstation" categories. Guy Harris (talk) 03:22, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Guy Harris: Your logic is sound. I support your edit if you'd like to make it. Brian Reading (talk) 15:10, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Done. I also linked "Fedora" to Fedora (operating system). Guy Harris (talk) 18:09, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
z/Linux
[edit]"z/Linux" just means "the S/390 and z/Architecture ports of the Linux kernel and the rest of the software that's part of Linux distributions", e.g. GNU libc. To what extent is that an IBM operating system - as opposed to RHEL, which is an IBM operating system in that it's developed by an IBM subsidiary?
The list does (as I noted in § Red Hat OSes) include OSes shipped by but not developed by IBM; do they ship all three of the certified-for-IBM-mainframes Linux distributions? If so, maybe they should be put in parentheses after z/Linux. Guy Harris (talk) 21:25, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
