Note that "trial" means trial period for support. The license is free, you can run it as long as you wish, for any purpose. Seems odd on a mainframe, but true.
And I personally recommend SLES over RedHat. If nothing else, YAST makes it far easier to manage. -Paul On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Rich Smrcina wrote: > On 02/15/2010 12:22 PM, Billy Bingham wrote: >> I would like to install Linux on z/VM, but I'm not sure what distribution to >> use. Is there a free version of SuSE or RedHat Linux that I can download to >> do this? Do I need to license a distribution from the vendor (SuSE or >> RedHat)? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Billy > > You can get a trial of both Novell and RedHat Linux for System z that come > with install support and maintenance for a certain amount of time. I think > Novell is 120 days. > > -- > Rich Smrcina > Phone: 414-491-6001 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina > > Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org > WAVV 2010 - Apr 9-13, 2010 Covington, KY >
