I was not aware of anyone who was running Fedora on the mainframe.
Some time ago, Alan Cox recommended against trying it, because it
receives little or no testing on the mainframe, and he had doubts the
installer would work at all. If you got it to work, a short
dissertation on how that was accomplished would be a nice addition to
the archives.
I'm running Fedora Core development on some of my VM guests and do an
test installation at least once a week. This way I can find install problems
soon after something has changed and this makes fixing things easier.
Alan is right when he says that the installer doesn't always work, but that's
true for the other architectures in the development version of Fedora core, too.
There aren't any boot images at the moment as we are still busy fixing gcc-4
bugs
and bugs found by gcc-4, but usually the required images ARE in the downloadable
trees.
Well isn't that the exact reason for people to actually use it - to iron out
the wrinkles? Given that this community is small, though reasonably active
I would think that considerable improvements could be made to FC which
should in turn lead to improved quality/functionality in RHEL.
Almost correct with the exception that improvements in most packages will
help the whole community as patches will be send to the upstream maintainers.
But the number of people who have permission and spare time to help testing and
thus 'wasting'
those precious CPU cycles on mainframe is quite limited. Anyhow, any help with
that is
welcome.
Karsten
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them in a meaningful way only prolongs our agony.
David Necas (Yeti)
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