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.
Think Matt Zimmerman was involved, if I'm not mistaken.
Matt? I can see why it might have languished:-) He's a dd and Technical
Director at Canonical/Ubuntu. Surely he'd not have enough time to push
Gentoo as well.
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!
My feeling when I tried it out on the wrong side of a 56k modem. That
plus bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144527
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Cheers
John
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