If you have an existing Linux environment on x86 or other hardware and want to leverage the SA skills you have in place then that would be a driver to selecting the distribution for z.
At this point SLES and RHEL are both good choices. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melancon, Ruddy Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Linux preferences I am getting started in the use of zVM and zLinux. I have purchased a license for SLES and have also installed Red Hat under test for an Oracle database. Everything I have installed is currently under test. We are looking at revamping what we have. I would like to pose a few questions. There is the prospect of Novell being purchased by Attachmate. I understand that in the past SLES has been more responsive to the x390 platform. If you were just starting out, would you use Red Hat instead of SLES?? Are there other more pressing reasons to choose one over the other?? The Oracle DBA indicates that Oracle is easier to implement under Red Hat. How hard would it be to manage both distributions?? Ruddy A. Melancon IT Systems Specialist, Senior Alabama Department of Transportation 334-353-6323 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
