Same here .. I consult with many customers who have RH on Intel and it makes sense to use the same distro on z. There have been a couple of occasions where SuSE was perhaps a little ahead on device drivers (FCP/SAN comes to mind) -- but in general RH is a solid distro. I also personally prefer it's package manager (yum in RH5) and the ease with which you can create package repositories.
SuSE/RH also put config files in slightly different places - so it reduces the learning curve if they stick to the distro they use on other platforms. Scott Rohling System z Linux and VM Specialist IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab Services On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Stewart Thomas J < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We run RHEL on z because that is what we run on Intel. It was easier for > our Linux admins to know just one distro, and we can reuse a lot of the same > processes and Red Hat features across the platforms. Sometimes it bites us > when certain product vendors only support Suse on z, or when there is a time > lag getting functionality into Red Hat, but otherwise we've been extremely > pleased so far. > > > __________________________________ > Tom Stewart > Infrastructure Analyst > John Deere - z/OS Support Services > em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ph: (309) 765-9405 > __________________________________ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > RPN01 > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: What distribution and why? > > We¹re looking at the costs and effort of converting our installation from > SuSE SLES to RedHat RHEL on the zSeries, and I¹m wondering what others are > running, and why they chose the particular distribution. All comments are > welcome, on or off list; I just want to be sure we¹re not backing ourselves > into the room¹s other corner.... > > I know this has been discussed before, but times change, and maybe a > headcount is in order again. > > -- > Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. > RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ > 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ > ----- ^^-^^ > "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and > practice are different." > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
