We're expecting our GA copy of SLES8 for S/390 any day now. We've been told by SuSE that it has shipped.
It was released a few weeks later than the Intel version. Apparently their website hasn't been properly updated yet. > -----Original Message----- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Most 'mature' distribution? > > > I hate to argue (sometimes, honest), but SuSE 8.1 is out for > Intel, and has > been for several months. SLES8 was supposed to be released > in December, but > I haven't seen any formal announcements saying it actually > happened. While > you can argue that SLES8 is a different product than SuSE > 8.1, that would > just reinforce my point that the enterprise products are on a > different > release schedule than the "consumer" versions (for lack of a > better term). > I would admit that using the phrase "Intel version" is > inaccurate in this > case. "Enterprise versions," regardless of architecture > would have been > better. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ihno Krumreich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Most 'mature' distribution? > > > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:52:28PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > 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. > > > The same is true for SLES8. See > > http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/business/products/sles/index.html > > Ihno > > -- > Ihno Krumreich [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries > Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 +49-911-74053-439 > 90429 N|rnberg http://www.suse.de >
