On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > On 18 July 2016 at 17:36, John McKown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I would like to "mess around" with Linux on z. I'm a z/OS sysprog & > > Linux/Intel "power" user (I use Fedora). I can see where I can get a "120 > > day free trial". But not one word on how much it is thereafter. Really, > > IBM. I do _not_ respond well to lack of basic information. If it is more > > than what I pay to GitHub ($7/month), I'm not likely to bother wasting my > > time. I'm just a poor, old, z/OS person. > > > > LinuxONE community cloud is an educational / demo tool hosted at > Marist college. It is not a public cloud / pay-as-you-go model. > At the end of the trial the instance is simply shutdown, and there is > an extremely limited amount of cloudy things one can do there. > Note "the instance" above, as one really gets a quota of just a single > instance for the duration of the trial. > > You should try contacting them with your needs and requests. Some open > source projects got instances for a longer period of time, but it's > still no guarantees / gratis service. > Ah. Thank you. I totally misunderstood the thrust of the offer. I am looking at a page on IBM's DeveloperWorks and so I assumed it was an IBM offer. Since I was only wanting to "goof around" a bit, I won't strain Marist college's server with tinkering. If I really wanted to, I could run Linux on z under Hercules390 on my Intel/Xenon E3 workstation at home. > > Regards, > > Dimitri. > > -- "Worry was nothing more than paying interest on a loan that a man may never borrow" From: "Quest for the White Wind" by Alan Black Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
