> 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....
We run both, mainly because some major applications are only certified on SuSE, or tend to have significant delays in support on RH. Historically, RH has been slower to adopt new goodies, and their support organization (with the notable exception of Brad Hinson -- thanks, Brad!) tends to be baffled by non-Intel hardware. Usually, if you patiently explain that it isn't a Intel box enough times, they get it. Eventually. I think the Novell level 1 people have a better phone script...8-). If you do kernel work, RH tends to be less cooperative than SuSE in terms of incorporating things; there is a sense of religious purity that can be a problem. Reminds me a lot of early 1980's IBM in some ways. RH has also been somewhat lukewarm about Z in the past, sometimes to the point of ruining deals by talking up Intel over Z. Again, improved recently, but they're still playing catchup in the Z space. At this point, if you aren't concerned about the delay in certification for some big apps like WAS, it'd be a coin-flip. As others have said, if you're smoking the RH pipe elsewhere in your organization, probably wouldn't be a bad choice to do it on Z too. Yum is pretty cool, and tends to be less of a PITA to manipulate than YaST. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
