On Oct 4, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Eric Chevalier wrote:
I wasn't aware that Debian for the mainframe was free; I'm looking at their web site right now. That might well be the way to go.
It's free, and, should you want commercial support for it at some point, that, as they say, can be arranged.
Again, thanks for the pointer to Debian; that may well be the path I decide to take!
It's been my favorite distro for a while for several reasons: first is that it's less encumbered than SuSE or Red Hat, although it HAS gotten a lot easier to get free trial versions from them. Second is that you can install a useful Debian machine in a much smaller virtual machine than SuSE or Red Hat...this is less true with Sarge than it was with Woody, but you can still actually get work out of a 64MB system with 500 cylinders of disk. Third, I think apt/dpkg is a much, much better packaging system than you get with SuSE or Red Hat: apt-get is so much easier to use than YaST that it makes putting together a development system a breeze, and after that putting together an appliance (which is a minimal system with my software dropped on top) is also a breeze. I adore apt. 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
