Last week I was teaching a course for IBM with a 16 way real CPU. One of the students in a lab exercise went so far as to bring up a browser. Response time was OK. But my experience with graphical browsers on z/VM has been uniformally poor response time.
I would suggest a demo of something that would be useful in production, of course. Not graphics. The only production I see with a graphical browser is limited use by Oracle DBAs for some occassional task. No way would this leave the data centre. Maybe IBM will come up with a CPU devoted to mouse movements one of these days ... David -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Mark Post Sent: Wed 3/14/2007 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: firefox >>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 9:42 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Levy, Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know where to get a Mozilla firefox rpm for sles9 31 bit ? Ok, time for mainframe systems programmer answer #1: What would you want to do that for? Is there a specific need for Firefox, versus Mozilla? SLES9 GA contained Mozilla 1.6, but later Seamonkey was put out to correct a security issue with Mozilla that wasn't going to be fixed by the Mozilla developers. I would strongly recommend that you not use a graphical browser on your mainframe. It's expensive in terms of CPU cycles and, if you have even moderate network latency between you and the mainframe, painfully slow. And when I say "painful" I'm not kidding. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
