This was in Forbes on 22.1., and dismissed by IBM on 26.1. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/us-ibm-restructuring-forbes-idUSKBN0KZ1WF20150126) quite convincingly: "IBM does not comment on rumors, even ridiculous or baseless ones," the company said in the email. "If anyone had checked information readily available from our public earnings statements, or had simply asked us, they would know that IBM has already announced the company has just taken a $600 million charge for workforce rebalancing. This equates to several thousand people, a small fraction of what's been reported." Not sure why Slashdot is picking up on this several days later... Is there any new indication that the 100k number is correct at all?

Erm... how is this a new OS? Linux always came with different window managers and browsers. Granted, many OSes (incl. proprietary ones) are based on open source kernels. But they would usually modify the kernel in a major way (or just call it a distribution, i.e., "Google Linux") - but in the press statement I don't read "on top of a highly modified Linux kernel". I hope for their sake that they made some revolutionary, meaningful changes to the kernel; otherwise they will just get ridiculed by their competitors as well as the open source community before long.