Call it a throwback to the days when Linux was as much a symptom
of anti-establishment behavior as it was a software project.
Sure, you can think of Red Hat as being an unconventional name for a
software company when it first came on the Linux scene. (Nobody
thinks that today, but it was pretty odd back then.) But if you thought
that was odd for a Linux vendor, consider that it could have been
something just a tad stranger -- like Yggdrasil.
Yggdrasil?
Um hmm. Spelled just that way and pronounced "IG-dra-sil." In
Norse mythology it's the name of the tree of life that is said to support
the sky. There are a few places on the 'net that go into
the mythology. However, what's interesting to me is the role Yggdrasil Computing played in the
early days of Linux. And even more interesting could be the role this same
company plays in Linux's present and future.
