IBM Linux ad: Prodigy
Linux advertisement from IBM, released in September 2003. “The Future is Open”
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well, IBM sold it’s PC business to Chinese. or it will never gives a damn abt linux
Yes.
just search for “linux” on google and you’ll most likely get a few sites in your homeland about it or you can try wikipedia, check around which flavor fits you the best and try it out..
some popular distros are Ubuntu (or Kubuntu), Debian, Mandriva, Novell (suse), Debian, Fedora (Red Hat).
I myself use Mandriva 64bit on my laptop and it works great, webcam, wireless, bluetooth, firewire, DVD+/-RW, all but some of the “FN-keys” more or less worked out-of-the-box.
NEVERMIND I found Ubuntu and Sabayon Live CD!! but thanks anyway!
Dear Mr. Bill Gates,
Since you’ve betrayed us in 1985, even if we’re making chipsets for Apple Computer no more, we’re searching the best way to turn your empire in a small software house. We passionately hope that Linux and Mac OS will destroy Windows and Microsoft. We can’t wait for your sunset.
Your IBM
I thought IBM and MS are friends… now I know, IBM is really great organization with really great ideas. I hope, Linux will become popular and Torvalds, Stallman and people like that, will be as popular as Gates. And I really hope, commercial distros like SuSE, Mandriva and Red Hat will be forgotten.
Sorry for bad English, Colpik
This doesn’t explain what linux is at all…..
linux and mac osx are the better sh*t, but you cant go around that pc games work the best on a windows :/, i hope in the future more compagnies will make more versions, even for linux, and it explains that with linux you as a user know all about yourself, and with linux you can expand your point of view, but commercials are always a bit over it
Game support is a huge problem. One factor is that most games are DirectX, which is for the XBox (360) and Windows. If developers used opengl, they could port it to PS3, Mac and Linux, and almost every platform available. It would be more work, but more profits.
whats the name of this song
beautiful
Linux FTW
u cann’t imagine how beautiful is
his name is linux <<
good grafic on this video
linux is sooo cute!
This is a powerful ad….Very powerful for linux and everything it stands for…Please do a new one like this!!!!
The feeling reminds me of the feeling I got when watching the end scene from “The Abyss”…amazing.
it brought tears to my eyes
The first time I saw this commercial it sent shivers down my spine.
wow, very nicely done! +1 IBM!
no actually mac os x has the faster opengl engine in the world and so it’s the best opengl gaming platform too, it’s 2x faster than the vista engine
Excellent work IBM!
Embracing public domain (“Res Publica”) is just the latest in a series of moves that proves that a company that had become complacent, fat, lazy, and facing extinction can once again be a leading edge contemporary competitor.
great
It killed my sister.
Excuse me ?
pretty cool.., the best ever.., linux is getting better and better as time goes by..,