It was a huge surprise to everyone when IBM announced that they would be pouring obscene amounts of money — over $1 billion dollars — into Linux. Much to the dismay of their competitors, IBM has committed to making every one of their servers, PCs, and software products compatible with Linux. The rest of the industry is only now scrambling to catch up with what Big Blue has done, and many more companies are touting their own Linux development efforts and product compatibility.
The Intellistation represents the latest in IBM PC workstation technology. What impresses us most about this machine is not how innovative it is but how innovative it isn’t. The Intellistation is everything that you wouldn’t expect a classic IBM product to be — a totally hassle-free, non-proprietary, off-the-shelf generic PC that’s extremely well supported.
Yes, we’re talking about the very same company that introduced the PS/2, OS/2, Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), The PowerPC, and Token-Ring. However, this is not your father’s IBM PC. IBM shipped us a mid-range Intellistation E Pro, sporting a 1 GHz Pentium III with Award BIOS, Via Apollo Pro chipset, 256 MB of PC 133 SDRAM, onboard Intel networking, onboard VIA technologies 16-bit sound, nVidia 32 MB GeForce2 MX video, ATAPI 48x CD-ROM, onboard Adaptec 7892 dual-channel Ultra 160 SCSI, and a 9.1 GB IBM Ultrastar 10 K SCSI drive, pre-loaded with Red Hat Linux 7.
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