Accessing partitions in drive images

[David Hardy]

To add to the general levity and amusement here, OS/2 is actually still
extant in some corners of the giant IBM complex up here in northern
Vermont.

And our issue laptops are Lenovo Thinkpads, with XP or 7, but we can, with
permission, put Red Hat, Fedora or Ubuntu on them.   IBM is heavy on Red
Hat up here and now there are reports they are also looking at Ubuntu for
servers.   We have about 2,500 RH x86 and blade servers in a dozen or more
clusters, running, so far, only 5.3 and 5.6, while looking to CentOS
releases for stability information as they come out before moving to newer
RH.



On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> >>   I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how
> >> much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.
> >
> > The IBM PC was released in 1981.  You expected something other than
> > "kludges"?
>
>   Heh.  Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to
> be sure.  But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
> design by the infinite monkey method.  As much as I live and play in
> the IBM-PC world... much like laws and sausage, it's best not to look
> too closely at the innards.
>
> -- Ben
>
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