On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:32:44PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 06:20 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> > I didn't know Gentoo was available for z:-)
> Guess it was at one time (see http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/s390/ ) but
> I don't think it was anything but experimental, and it hasn't been
> looked at in awhile.

However, it does work...I successfully got it together last week on
Hercules.

> It takes 45 hours to emerge OpenOffice on my little 350MHz intelbox at
> home.  Can't imagine what it would take in a 7060 LPAR in competition
> with z/OS.  Some things are best left installed from binaries!

Indeed. OTOH, some things are best custom installed...why, for example, does
SLES 10 install audio software and the gpm console mouse driver on
z/Series?!
--
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http://www.hercules-390.org               (Yes, that's me!)
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