Where does one get a copy of S/390 Debian Sarge? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/05 02:34AM >>> On Jan 9, 2005, at 7:56 PM, Post, Mark K wrote:
> Let me preface my statements by saying that I am the architecture > maintainer/developer for the S/390 port of Slackware. Debian, is a > _very_ > good Linux distribution. It has a tremendous community of > maintainers/developers. If ISV certifications is not an issue for > you, you > won't be sorry for choosing it. Also, just because the stable branch > tends > to "lag" somewhat, doesn't mean you have to stick with that. Debian's > "unstable" branch is fairly current, and equal to or better than most > GA > software from a lot of companies. > Current "unstable" should be released as "stable" Pretty Darn Soon now. No, no actual date yet. But soon. I would certainly recommend working with Sarge RC2 right now (caveat: it might actually be broken, since it's been a while since RC2; but if you try RC2 and it doesn't build, let me know and I'll make a build of the latest daily release for you). Sarge (3.1) is quite stable and much more modern than Woody (3.0). Also--and this is a bit of an issue for me, anyway, because I've put a fair bit of time into testing debian-installer on Sarge and trying to help out with issues we've discovered on S/390--if your Linux box has network access, *I* at least have never had to go through the contortions that SLES 9 is requiring from some people on the list. If you installed Woody, well, Sarge is a lot nicer to install. And if you haven't, in my opinion, debian-installer makes Debian at least as easy to install in a server/no-X environment as either SuSE or RedHat and can be done with a much smaller footprint. SuSE now needs 2 3390-3s to install, I think; I can install Debian in 400 cylinders and run an actual application too, *without* having to manually trim anything from the default minimal install. Debian-installer works fine in 64MB of memory--and would work in less if anyone had had the time and energy to work on a lowmem install for S/390--rather than the 256MB SuSE requires. Once installed it can run in a lot less than that. If your S/390 cannot see the Internet but it is on an IP network inside your company and can get to something with a CD or DVD drive, then not long at all after the Sarge release, we should be able to sell you a VM-friendly Debian installer system. I might do an LPAR version as well that used a local x86 (or whatever--just something with a few gigabytes of disk free that can run a web server) as the installation mirror, along with an IPL tape--if there is demand for it. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
