Re: Terminal server

2009-10-23 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Donald, few remarks about ts-shell command history: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:16:35PM -0700, Donald Russell wrote: I miss the command history... it's OK (even desirable) to have that kept for the current ts-shell session only. (Similar to how terminal works) ts-shell supports basic

Re: z/VM terminal server

2009-10-23 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Donald, thanks for your suggestions! Let me start to discuss the pager first: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:38:54AM -0700, Donald Russell wrote: First, let me say I think this whole terminal server thing is fantastic. I would like to offer some suggestions... Thanks! 2c - add an option in

Universal Binaries on Linux?

2009-10-23 Thread McKown, John
Interesting article, to me. Might be nice to have a single executable that runs on Intel/32 Intel/64, z/31, z/64, and p. Apparently the data only portion would not be duplicated, only the executable code portion. Not likely to happen, but interesting (again, at least to me).

Re: Universal Binaries on Linux?

2009-10-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Agreed - very interesting... though to me, mostly as a distribution vehicle -- whatever does the install of the binaries would hopefully extract out the 'other platform' portions before laying down the code on 'this platform' -- that could be part of the install rpm, perhaps (elf extract). I

Re: Universal Binaries on Linux?

2009-10-23 Thread John Campbell
Data Segment being the same? No, I don't see it happening *that* well. The BSS segment, no problem, but static data? Anyone remember the nUxi problem? Yes, I am referring to byte sex or endianness. Intel is small endian and pSeries/zSeries is large endian. This affects how data is laid down

Re: Universal Binaries on Linux?

2009-10-23 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:33, John Campbell soup...@gmail.com wrote: I *think* the Universal binaries for Mac OS X between the PowerPC and x86 architectures have two copies of the code [...] Correct. Quoting wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary) : Universal binaries

SLES11 services

2009-10-23 Thread Bernie Wu
Hi List, Can I turn off irq_balancer service ? Seems like it is a x86 thing ? Along the same lines, what other services can/should I turn off ? The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the