On 10/10/07, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be nice, but based on my experience with non-commercial > distributions, not many people are interested in playing with them. > (Non-zero, but not many.)
The interest in non-commercial for Linux on z/VM is probably not like in "free speech" but more in "free from the need to get a manager to sign for evaluation agreement" I think we just lack the amount of skilled people that would justify for something like Fedora s390. And there's no need for people with new hardware to try out code because the hardware vendor has the support out before the hardware is available. And obviously a lot of the things in Linux are not platform specific, so indirectly the SLES s390 distribution does build on Opensuse x86. Now that the git for s390 is outside IBM, there is the option to contribute to the s390 kernel if you want to invest in aspects that IBM does not care about. Even though I have a strong personal interest to get the kernel to support pre-z hardware, I doubt I will ever get enough spare time to do that. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
