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\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\f0\fs24 I'm researching porting an application to S/390 Linux and had the following basic questions:\par
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1 - Do I need to be concerned about differences between Linux distributions? I.e. if I get it to work under SuSE will it work on RedHat or Debian assuming the kernel level is the same or compatible? Is the main difference in the administration/maintenance utilities provided with the package?\par
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2 - Do I need to worry about whether the application runs in a VM or LPAR Linux configuration? If so, is there a way for my application to test which environment it is running in.\par
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3 - Does anybody have any ideas when the number of disks available to Linux will be increased to a significant amount? For example, we have customers who would need 200+ 3380 devices to support our application if they wanted to import all existing information from MVS. I see that SuSE Enterprise Server 8 supports 600 disks, but do the other distributions support that many?\par
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John Rowland\par
Fischer International Systems Corporation\par
www.fischerinternational.com\par
239 436 2751\par
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