On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:49:06PM -0500, David Boyes wrote:
> > Why isn't anyone discussing going with IBM's ThinkBlue
> > version of Linux,
> > especially looking at 64-bit implementations?
>
> ThinkBlue's actually a separate company, not at all part of IBM.
>
> Wrt to 64 bit, there really aren't that many applications that need 64bit
> addressibility (SAP aside -- but then again, SAP needs all the resources you
> can possibly give it and then some...).

Millenux has ported Red Hat Linux 7.1 to zSeries last April. They have
changed two lines in our 31bit installer of that time and have added about
40 further patches to Red Hat Linux to work on zSeries. (Hmmm, our simple
installer is also derived from a Red Hat Linux port for 31 bit that Millenux
has done, so Red Hat definitely uses quite some work from Millenux here.)

They have then improved this version by adding patches to the installer
as well as updating their kernel to include ext3 and newer IBM patches.

Overall a very nice and clean port of Red Hat Linux and I think still the
only 64 bit port available from a ftp-server. I can only recommend to
use this version...

cu,

Florian La Roche

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