Once again in the "just for fun" vein http://linuxvm.org/haiku/ was added to the "humor and images" section of the links page: A SHARE haiku by Neale Ferguson, and the winners of the Salon Magazine MS Windows Computer Error Haiku Contest.
12/6/2001 - Mark Post published the URL of an IBM press release about DreamBall Co. going to Linux/390 in Korea. http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/news/pressreleases/2001/dreamball _pr_090401.html 12/6/2001 - Scott Courtney reported a story about Tommy Hilfiger Corporation choosing Linux running on IBM x and p-series hardware for their new e-business architecture. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-12-06-008-20-PR-DP 12/6/2001 - John Donghwa Kim of IBM posted a notice about the System Installation Suite that he is porting to Linux/390. He invited anyone who was interested in the SIS project to contact him off list. A short description of SIS from the project page reads: "System Installation Suite is a collection of open source software projects designed to work together to automate the installation and configuration of networked workstations. These software projects fit around a modular design framework designed to be cross-platform, operating system independant, and scalable from a single workstation to a thousand node collection of workstations." http://sisuite.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager http://systemconfig.sourceforge.net 12/5/2001 - Samy Rengasamy contributed a number of articles for inclusion here on some of his experiences with Linux/390, or that he culled from the mailing list. He also asked that everyone else do the same to increase the information sharing on the mailing list. I will be creating a separate page with an idex to these various kinds of "tips" or "how-to's" to make them (hopefully) easier for people to find. Oracle 9i and ODBC - http://linuxvm.org/Info/orclodbc.html DB2Connect to Serve DB2 Data through JSP from Tomcat - http://linuxvm.org/Info/db2cjsp.html Mail Merge on Linux-390 using troff - http://linuxvm.org/Info/mailmrge.html Porting HTML from Windows to Linux - http://linuxvm.org/Info/win2lin.html VNC on Linux S/390 - http://linuxvm.org/Info/vnc390.html 12/5/2001 - Since it looks like Red Hat won't be making any substantial changes in their Linux/390 platform, Mark Post updated the "Distribution Contents" page with the latest information. Both the Red Hat individual page, and the consolidated list were updated. http://linuxvm.org/Info/packages.html http://linuxvm.org/Info/redhat.html http://linuxvm.org/Info/appendix.html 12/5/2001 - In response to a question about mail merge programs on Linux, David Boyes responded with a nice example of how some of the functions of troff could accomplish that. http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.21388 12/5/2001 - Neale Ferguson reported IBM's announcement of withdrawal from marketing and support of VIF effective April 30, 2002. Kurt Acker of IBM responded by pointing to the URL for the z/VM 4.2 base publications, and recommending that VIF users look for the link to "System Administration Facility" for "VIF migrations and VIF like functionality." http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_901-307 US http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/canalets&parms=H_A01-1760 Canada http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealets&parms=H_ERIFZP010607 EMEA http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/pdf/vm420bas.html 12/5/2001 - Neale Ferguson reported success getting Oracle 9i working on Linux/390. Unfortunately, his poor memory prevented him from detailing exactly how he did it. :( Wait a minute, doesn't Neale work for a company that sells their own database? :) http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.21372 12/5/2001 - Neale Ferguson was the first to report the SuSE press release of Gerling Insurance AG going to Linux/390. Gerling is consolidating a number of Windows NT servers onto a z900. http://www.suse.com/us/press/press_releases/archive01/gerling.html 12/3/2001 - Mark Post came across another article about IBM's Linux Community Development System from July of 2001. http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev073001.htm 11/28/2001 - Neale Ferguson reported an article on IBM's DeveloperWorks regarding "the specifics of the PKCS #11 implementation to IBM cryptographic hardware (openCryptoki) that is available in open source form here on developerWorks." The support is for both Intel and S/390 hardware. The subtitle of the article is "API allows interfacing between cryptographic hardware and user space applications." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-11-28-017-20-SC-HW-SW http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/security/library/s-pkcs/ 11/28/2001 - Neale Ferguson created a PDF document "that contains most of what's found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/s390. I've just done some wordsmithing, formatting, and prettying up." It's a little large at 1.2MB, but it can be found here: http://linuxvm.org/info/390debug.pdf 11/28/2001 - Mark Post reported an article reviewing Red Hat's 7.2 platform and SuSE's 7.3 version: "But the new distributions aren't all about saving money: The two companies are also offering plenty of appealing features for enterprises. Red Hat's newest release, Version 7.2, brings several updates to the core functionality of the product, including built-in journaling file system support, and improved virtual memory management. Likewise, SuSE 7.3 offers greatly enhanced usability and a smooth migration path for shops that haven't yet fully committed to Linux. "The new products scored well in our tests; each earning a Deploy rating." Lionel Dyck reported a slightly different version of the article by the same authors. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/26/011126tclinux.xml http://computerworld.com/nlt/0%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO66154_NLTOS%2C00.html 11/28/2001 - Mark Post reported an article on Red Hat's approaching GA of their Linux/390 distribution. The article the software would be on Red Hat's FTP server on 11/29/2001, but as of 12/6/2001 that still has not yet happened. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/27/011127hnredhat.xml 11/28/2001 - Mark Post reported an article on IBM reaching a settlement with the city of San Francisco on cleanup costs and fines for IBM's "peace love and Linux" campaign there. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/27/011127hnlovenote.xml 11/28/2001 - David Boyes posted a link to "a cookbook article on setting up a cross-compilation environment for Linux/390 on an Intel system." The article was written by Kris Van Hees (also of Sine Nomine Associates). http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/xL390.php 11/27/2001 - Neale Ferguson reported an article on Red Hat committing to support for Linux on all of IBM's hardware lines. http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/2001_11_27_a.html 11/27/2001 - Gregory MacDonald gave some good tips on getting performance information out of the TSM client. http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.21175 11/27/2001 - Axel Wirbser of IBM reported some updates for Linux/390: Recommended patches for kernel 2.4.7 with fixes provided along with: Recommended 31-bit and 64-bit OCO-modules lcs, qdio, geth with bug-fixes. Experimental 2.4.7 with 64-bit OCOs lcs/qdio/qeth for "order 2 allocation relief patch" Documentation 2.4 with updated 31- and 64-bit "Device Drivers and Installation Commands" manuals describing HiperSockets (no longer in separate manual), dasdview with updates for fdasd, zipl, and OSA-EXPRESS http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/whatsnew.sh tml http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/current2_4. shtml http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/exp-2_4.sht ml http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/documentati on-2.4.shtml 11/26/2001 - The Tivoli Storage Manager client for Linux/390 now has a version 4.2 available. ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ client/v4r2/Linux390... 11/26/2001 - Mark Post found an article on IBM's DeveloperWorks site on how to use RPM to package software. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1/ The following link was updated on the list of URLs at http://linuxvm.org/info/l390link.html: "ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance /client/v4r1/Linux/LATEST/ Tivoli Storage Manager (ADSM) for Linux/390 Client was changed to ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/ client/v4r2/Linux390/LATEST Tivoli Storage Manager (ADSM) for Linux/390 Client The following links have been added to the list of URLs at http://linuxvm.org/info/l390link.html: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-12-06-008-20-PR-DP Tommy Hilfiger Chooses IBM and Linux for e-business Infrastructure http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/26/011126tclinux.xml Linux rivalry heats up http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/27/011127hnlovenote.xml San Francisco delivers bill for IBM's Linux love notes http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev073001.htm Free Mainframe - The LCDS gives developers access to mainframe Linux http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/news/pressreleases/2001/dreamball _pr_090401.html IBM Selected to Build Computing Infrastructure for Interactive Online Soccer Game http://www.suse.com/us/press/press_releases/archive01/gerling.html Top Insurance Company Gerling chooses SuSE Linux on the mainframe http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/27/011127hnredhat.xml Red Hat to put Linux on IBM servers http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/2001_11_27_a.html IBM Commits to Red Hat Linux Across eServer Line http://linuxvm.org/info/390debug.pdf Architecture & Debug Reference for Linux for S/390 & zSeries http://sisuite.sourceforge.net sisuite.sourceforge.net - System Installation Suite http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager - SystemImager Project Site http://systemconfig.sourceforge.net/ systemconfig.sourceforge.net - System Configurator http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/xL390.php Kris Van Hees - Cross-compiling Linux/390 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1/ Dan Poirier - Packaging software with RPM, Part 1 ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/l-rpm1.pdf Dan Poirier - Packaging software with RPM, Part 1 (PDF format) Mark Post
