At 02:22 02-01-03, Marco Shaw wrote: >I'm looking at some of the folder dates on the s390 directories on >redhat.com and suse.com, and can't help to notice they they are >relatively old.
I think Open Source economics (still) work differently on S/390. A distributor may be able to run a business when one out of 10,000 downloads purchases a $200 packaged distribution for the Intel version. The relatively small number of Linux for zSeries installations make things work out differently. If you'd offer the code for download you would probably not sell a lot. But if hackers with Hercules don't have access to it, then you will not have a lot of people play with it and report problems. As Mark says, SuSE sell their updates through maintenance contracts and don't offer current versions for free. For RedHat there is a pretty recent Rawhide version available (but I have not found any of the mirrors holding a copy of it - probably because the small number of downloads does not justify the disk space used). Since the Linux for zSeries does not support CDROM as such, we probably care less about ISO copies. I'm happy running rsync to get my local copy to shared over NFS or through FTP. For Hercules you can trick things by treating ISO images as 3370 (if the FBA discipline of your dasd driver is not broken, that is). Rob
