>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at  3:47 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> I should add that I also realize that s390x is now part of the standard
> Linux kernel, but shouldn't some other advice be added rather than just
> info on Oct. 2005 stream etc for the 2.6.16 kernel?

What kind of advice?  Most of those patches have already been merged into the 
latest 2.6 tree.  For those that aren't, anyone who wants to put in a little 
effort can forward-port them (or back port them in the case of the 2.4 fixes).  
It's tedious, but not really hard, per se.  For example, Slack/390 has a 
2.4.33.3 kernel with all the (known at the time of build) IBM updates for 2.4 
incorporated.  I'm am by no means a kernel hacker of any kind, but I was able 
to do it, with some help from the Debian project folks (by looking at their 
source updates for some particularly nasty issues).

Oh, and the Fedora project does have an S390[x] version (at times).  Just not 
in the stable tree.  CentOS really is a much better choice for Red Hat users.

I get the impression that an openSUSE project would be possible, but would 
require someone within Novell to drive it.  As Adam said, "not it" for me, 
either.


Mark Post

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