TAO Linux can be purchased for S390X for $7.50 + $5 S&H USD You can get an all platform kit for $34.50 + $7 S&H USD
http://www.exofire-cd-burn.com/page14.html Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wine on z/Linux McKown, John wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf Of Adam Thornton >>Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:44 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: Wine on z/Linux > > <snip> > >>I do not buy the "sold a bill of goods" part. > > > Well, trying to be nice, I left out the part that the people who told > our (now ex-) management were the IBM sales people who were trying to > get an IFL on a z800 sold to us. > > >>Wine *does* allow Linux to run (some) Windows software (Exchange and >>SQL Server? No idea). >> >>Linux on an IFL *is* "FREE!!!" (modulo support costs). And it *can* >>be a useful consolidation tool for some workloads. > > > Oh? I've never managed to find a s390x version of Linux that I can > download directly from the Internet, other than CentOS. Both SuSE and RH > wanted nnn dollars for a "test version" of Linux which we could only use > for something like 6 months. Whereupon they expected us to stop using > the software or get a service contract with them. I still cannot find I imagine the charge is to cover (with profit) the vendor's costs. How they legally prevent its continued use is a great mystery to me. > anywhere that I can purchase a DVD (or CD collection) which has an s390x > Linux distro on it, to run under Hercules/390. I cannot afford to > download CentOS at the house. My DSL is too slow and CentOS is too big. You can't find someone at a local Linux-oriented IAP or your local LUG that will do it for a few dollars? Or download one image whenever you have some spare capacity towards the end of a billing cycle? Or upgrade to a more suitable plan? FWIW I installed FC2 (Intel) through a modem by configuring a local Apache as a caching proxy and installing from that. It's true it took a few 4-hour sessions, but restarting from the cache was quick. > > >>The missing piece is that "Linux" in the first sentence means "Linux/ >>x86" and in the second "Linux/390." >> > > > Except that the information about Linux and Wine came from the same > people who were trying to get us to buy an IFL. Not exactly > "transparently honest", IMO. Probably ignorant. My experience of IT salesmen suggests they're rarely technically competant. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
