>>> On 8/6/2013 at 08:29 AM, Jim Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > Could anybody tell / direct and or advise me, on what that most > used flavor of **nix is on z ??.
If you're simply talking market share/install base, that would be SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. > I used to be a proponent of SuSe but that was decades ago .... No reason that has to change. :) > 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. There are a lot of reasons to pick one versus the other. 1. ISV application certifications. Are the applications you intend to run certified on the distribution you're considering? 2. Whether you think you'll be doing High Availability or not. and so on. Quite some time ago, I wrote an article for (then named) z/Journal. Brad Hinson of Red Hat complimented me on it, so I guess I wasn't too biased when I wrote it. You can find it at http://enterprisesystemsmedia.com/article/selecting-a-linux-or-linux-390-distribution 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
