On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, jim silbey wrote:

> I was wondering how involved Redhat is with zSeries
> Linux. Its last distro was at 2.4.9 (RH7.1/7.2) over a
> year ago. In the same time period, SuSE put out SLES7,
> patch SP1 for SLES7, SLES8, and I hear patch SP2 for
> SLES8 will be out soon. The presentations that Mark
> posted mention that 2.6 is entering or soon will enter
> Beta.

Red Hat's talking about an 18-month release cycle and support for five
years on its ES line. RHAS 2.1 is based on RHL 7.2.

I _am_ a little suprised it still has that old kernel, but if Oracle and
DB2 are certified for that kernel, what do you Enterprise folks want?


> I know companies would like to keep a "unified image"
> so either Redhat or SuSE from PC to mainframe seems to
> be a goal. Redhat seems to be ahead in the PC race in
> the US, but SuSE seems to be ahead in the zSeries
> race.
>
> Whither will this competition go?

Red Hat has set its direction with the ES line, with that it will sink
or fly.



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Cheers
John.

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