> -----Original Message----- > From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "batch" compiles > > <snip>
> > You might also equip everyone with their own quad Xeon running Linux, > Hercules and Linux/390. <DROOLING BIG TIME> ME FIRST! ME FIRST! This is actually what I intend to propose, in a sense, for doing maintenance and testing. Why use very expensive zMIPS (you heard it here first!) when I can get a relatively inexpensive "super workstation" to do patches and kernel compiles and tests? Do it all on the Linux/Intel/Hercules platform, then just NFS mount to the mainframe and copy to the "quality assurance" Linux image for "real testing". > > Then defy them to get in each others' way;-) > > I don't think the idea's too silly. They could mount their Hercules > filesystems from your mainframe using NFS, and their personal systems > would just be cloned. Keep the valuables on the mainframe, > don't backup > the toys. >
