On Jan 4, 2005, at 3:02 PM, James Melin wrote:
Mark, do you have any personal experience flying the taolinux distro on big iron? My boss was interested in a 'truly free' Linux for our non-vm box in case we needed some stand-alone guests. I have no clue what he's thinking about however.
Well, you've got three obvious options: Tao Linux, Slackware, and Debian. Mark's the maintainer of Slackware/390, so he can probably talk about it in some detail.
All of 'em work fine, I hear, although the only one I have used is Debian, and only on Hercules in a "bare iron" environment. We built a boot tape for Debian to use under bare iron and it worked OK. If you go with Debian, I'd go with Sarge rather than Woody. Contact me offline if you need specific recommendations and instructions on where to get it from.
Adam
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