The real answer to this is yes, the Debian mailing lists which operate
24x7, and are always manned by knowledgable people, but that is not a
management friendly answer.
I think however the question you are asking is does any company offer 24x7
support, and in terms of a big name I think the only one is HP who load
Debian on some of their RISC boxes. Whether they would support a 390
installation I do not know, but until IBM realises that there is more than
just RH and SuSE they might be prepared to, and it might even embarase IBM
into doing something.
It is also possible that IBM Global Services would take on Debian, the
resistance currently seems to be in the Software Division who will only
package and certify code like Websphere, Java and DB2 for RPM based
distributions.
David
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marco Shaw wrote:
> > Sure wish IBM would support Debian. It is SO VERY much nicer to use.
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> Is that a general statement about Debian, or you find Debian/390 to be
> very good compared to other Linux/390 distributions?
My experience is all IA32.
I've been using Red Hat Linux since 3.0.3. Recent releases are easy to
install and adapt easily to changed configurations such as a change of
NIC, mouse, new drives and such. Also, much configuration is assisted by
GUIs.
With the advent of RH 8.0, RH and I have some differences and I've been
looking at Debian.
Debian's installer "needs work," I've not discovered much in the way of
tools to help users configure stuff.
One RHL one installs stuff and then configures it, but it's up to you to
figure what needs to be configured. Mostly, stuff is in a working state.
on Debian, much configuration is interactive; you leave off installing a
bunch of software to configure less, and that's a pain, it makes
automatic installations akin to Red Hat's kickstart process difficult.
To be sure, cloning is easy enough.
However, one you have the system setup and running, I think Debian wins.
*I* want to get my updates from a local mirror, and Red Hat's tools for
package-maintenance don't so easily support that. For that reason I've
not used Red Hat's up2date facility.
On Debian, apt-get automatically gets the latest versions of packages.
Installing Apache? It gets the updated version for your release plus all
the requirements.
I've not tried updating from one release to another, but as I understand
it, it's supposed to work on the running system, without rebooting
(except to activate your new kernel).
I think I would reboot, once the upgrade's done, to ensure everything is
restart and does still work.
I also like the fact it makes no effort to tie me to a vendor.
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John.
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