On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Jim Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Could anybody tell / direct and or advise me, on what that most > used flavor of **nix is on z ??.
It's going to depend on where you are on the curve and what your workload is (or will be). If possible, try two or more distros ... have a "bake off". And do you already have Linux on other platforms? > I used to be a proponent of SuSe but that was decades ago .... Right. SUSE and RedHat both have excellent Linux implementations on System z and true support. So if you're going to do production enterprise work with zLinux, check them out. There are others: Debian is available (support involves third party), Slackware too, and several experimental Linux. There is even a CentOS port. > Furthermore, if anybody can point me to any 'material' that might > explain why one 'flavor' is chosen over the other, that would be > great too. Do you already have in-house Linux (on other hardware)? If so, then your first course would be to consider that distro. I presume that you (Jim) are the "VM guy" or the "mainframe guy" and someone else on your team handles Linux up to now. (If that is not correct, I apologize.) So you very much want to find common ground with the other side. > Kind Regards. > > Jim -- -- R; Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
