Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Martin Grimm wrote: I'm aware of popcon and as much as I'd appreciate it to see our systems counted there this will not happen because these are mainly production systems behind firewalls or in internal networks with no internet access and I've generally a bad

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: I think a bigger question is where do you find hardware where you can get remote root on; I'm not very familiar with s390 or mainframes in general, but its not a piece of hardware one individual person would own. I'm aware of the Hercules

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: The first problem is the worst. Currently only Frans Pop and I do work on it. Frans only does the Debian-Installer part and I simply have not enough time to do the rest. The s390 architecture is quite different to anything else, so

Re: attention to bug 321435

2005-09-30 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 30, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Please see http://bugs.debian.org/321435. This bug is that gs-gpl fails to work on s390. I recall just seeing a principal s390 developers say he was no longer doing the Debian s390 port. I don't know what effect this has on the bug.