On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:08:43AM -0700, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > The 2.2.16 kernel is quite backleveled. > > SuSE, Turbo and RedHat all have distributions using the 2.4.7 kernel, which > is far more stable and capable than 2.2.16. (the current kernel is, I > believe, the 2.4.19 kernel, but SuSE and RedHat at least haven't come out > with distros for them. 2.6.x is being eagerly anticipated.) > > Turbo was just bought out by someone else and there have been some questions > as to what's going to happen to them in the future. > > There are also a few other distributions out there, like Debian, but they > mostly require you to do all the work and find and load all of the program > products. Very cheap, but very labor intensive. Turbo, SuSe and a host of > others (but not RedHat) have joined to form the United Linux consortium to > produce a "standard" mainframe linux distribution, but it may be some time > before we see results from that.
The consortium is made from Turbo, SuSE, Connectiva and SCO (formar Caldera). For more information look at www.unitedlinux.com. UL is running from PC to mainframe. Ihno -- Ihno Krumreich [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 +49-911-74053-439 90429 N|rnberg http://www.suse.de
