Fedora Core is working great for my purposes. I don't plan on running
WebSphere or much over a standard system. It seems that the recommended
linux distributions assume a stable distribution for implementations over
and above what many can stand to gain from the stability I'm seeing with
Fedora Core. Now, it's difficult knowing there really isn't any support out
there for it. I don't know, for example, if I should be updating the Kernel
and packages or not given the lack of information from the user community
who may also be using Fedora Core for s390. As of the last week of January
the linux kernel in my instance on the mainframe is version 2.6.10.1109
_FC4. Since then the kernel has been updated a couple of times and is now
version 2.6.11-1.1177_FC4. Is it possible these updates can become
unstable? What do you recommend as far as how I should maintain and upgrade
Fedora Core Dev in the future?
Tim Stalker
University of Nebraska
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On Tuesday, 03/08/2005 at 12:50 CST, Tim J Stalker
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> 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
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