On Tuesday, 03/08/2005 at 12:50 CST, Tim J Stalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is this so unusual to be running? I had no problems with the install > and didn't realize I could have problems or I wouldn't have chose to > install Fedora Core Development. Now I'm just surprised I can't find any > information on Fedora Core Dev/s390.
It's a culture thing. People in the mainframe world have traditionally not wanted to run beta code. They want code that has been fully tested and shown to be stable, and for which support is available. That desire clashes with the other driving force: cost. Free vs. Stability. Hmmmm..... On top of that are the middleware certifications. With few exceptions, IBM middleware is currently supported on RHEL and SLES only; no betas, no development releases, nada. So, while Fedora Core might be perfectly reasonable to run, say, Apache and Tomcat on, it won't do for WebSphere. You have to get underneath the kernel, so to speak, and find out what drives someone to install Linux on the mainframe. That will usually drive the distro flavor. Not in all cases, of course, but it's shown itself to be a good rule of thumb. So far. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
