True, without wishing to show any kind of bigotry (honest!) having done installations of both the new RedHat and SuSE s390x, the fact that RedHat doesn't ship the OCO modules and SuSE does makes SuSE simple. I could go on to compare the two, but that might show favouritism, so I leave it at that.
One point: RedHat even refuses to support any problems you may get after you, the customer, install any OCO modules. They document that you must reproduce any problem with the OCO modules removed before any assistance can be given. The only real question here is why does RedHat take such a hard line on the OCO, after all the distribution is aimed at a mainframe not a PC! Mark Perry -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Elliott Sent: 17 May 2002 18:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Was a new S/390 RH 7.2 GA released today? > Was there a major release for S/390 RH 7.2 today? I noticed there's a > new experimental OCO mod at the IBM site for 2.4.9-37 > Guess I don't understand why there's still a need for the OCO ?? I > though LCS support would be in the RH release by now?? Dave: It appears there is a new kernel drop from Red Hat at 2.4.9-37. The OCO modules are still required for QDIO. LCS is now open source, but not QDIO. Regards, Jim
