On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:00:37PM -0500, Mark Post wrote: > You're asking for conflicting things. "Advanced" and "stable" don't > usually go together in software. One thing you're going to find in the > Linux/390 arena is that releases are probably going to be much less > frequent than with Intel Linux, for example. You're also not going to > find downloadable .iso images, except for the Debian distribution.
Debian is an exception to both of these rules, in fact. The portable software in the Debian Linux/390 distribution is built from exactly the same source code as on every other Debian architecture, and all architectures are released in sync, with the same versions of every package. I.e., Debian 3.0 ships with Apache 1.3.26 on Alpha, ARM, HP PA-RISC, Intel 386, IA64, Motorola 68k, MIPS, PowerPC, S/390 and SPARC architectures. Likewise for security updates, which are usually made for all supported architectures at the same time. -- - mdz
