Mark Post wrote:
I've been an advocate of running Linux on the mainframe from the first I heard it existed back in early 2000. One of the most interesting things I've heard from someone running it in production was along the lines of this: Once it becomes quick and easy to create and destroy Linux systems, and your application developers (and their managers) really understand this, it unlocks innovation to a degree not seen previously. Things that are too speculative to try with real hardware, because of capital budgets, amortization and depreciation, are almost no-brainers in a virtual environment.
I'm starting to get this on the peecee now, with xen and kvm providing virtualised hardware, it's becoming easy to produce virtual Linux (or Windows) PCs just to try something, or to have a different version. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot 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
