Bill Dodge wrote:
Thanks to all - still have a lot to learn about this new operating system. I guess someday it will be as automatic as VM and VSE but it is a struggle sometimes.
Bill, you're doing something strange. For some reasons, replies to your messages are set to go to you whereas they should be going to the list. We'd like you to stick around, but perhaps you could examine your settings. I was going to say that you should be get yourself a book with a title similar to "Linux unleashed" and with a DVD with Fedora Core (preferably FC 6) attached and a spare peecee, and work your way through it. There's a lot of special stuff wrt mainframes, but basically Linux is Linux, and understanding Linux on a peecee will help heaps. I recommend FC6* to you because RHEL 5 is based on it. If you wanted to learn SLES 10 then OpenSUSE 10 would be the go (but books might be harder to find). A used PC would do fine, but you would need 512 Mbytes of RAM. If you have that much RAM, the CPU will be fine:-0 At a pinch you might be able to run it under Windows in MS Virtual PC. Dual booting works well, but I generally find I'm running Linux when I'd like to run Windows, and I don't want to reboot. If you want to run zlinux on your peecee, you can. Download Hercules. * CentOS has rebuilds of RHEL, yours for the downloading. CentOS 5 is available, but not yet for Z. Its advantage over FC6 is its projected life - the same as RHEL 5. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please 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
