>>> On 11/29/2009 at 8:14 PM, Mike Myers <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > I guess the best strategy is to get them some experience with Ubuntu or > an equivalent distro (in what I'll call "mixed mode" - using both > commands and a GUI) and then show zLinux to the server folks when I get > it going.
It might be better in the short term if you introduced them to the same distribution as they will wind up running on the mainframe. I've supported quite a few different Linux versions without a whole lot of adjustment effort, but for the newcomer that might be too much of a learning curve. For the "big commercially supported" options, that leaves SLES and RHEL, although Debian/390 and Slack/390 are also supported by third parties. There are also Gentoo, Fedora, and CentOS, but I'm not personally aware of anyone that offers support for them. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
