Think Blue Linux (sometimes ''ThinkBlue Linux'') was a port of
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...
to
IBM S/390 (later, zSeries)
mainframe computer
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterpris ...
s, done by the Millenux subsidiary of German company Thinking Objects Software GmbH.
The distribution consisted primarily of a collection of
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004.
Early releases of Red Hat Linux were called Red Hat Commercial Linux. Red Hat published the first non-beta release ...
6.1 packages (or
RPM
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Standards
ISO 80000-3:2019 defines a unit of rotation as the dimension ...
s) on top of IBM's port of the
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ...
. Distribution of the product ceased on February 16, 2006.
References
LinuxToday articleHeise article
(German)
External links
linux.s390.org
ak
linux.zseries.org
is the official ThinkBlue/64 website
Thinking Objects Software GmbH
(German)
*Millenux (subsidiary of Thinking Objects
product page (German)
Discontinued Linux distributions
Linux distributions
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