Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to my surprise, it was taken

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
en working on, supplanting the efforts of the enthusiast team. Hence, perhaps the best approach is just to do a really good job of making it look like a FreeBSD S/390 port is being done. If this is successfully pulled off, IBM will actually end up doing the real work. Mike "Silby" Silbers

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Robert Watson writes: | On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: | Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM | S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on | a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to | my

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Jaime Fournier
--- Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:47:46PM -0800, Jaime Fournier scribbled: | Well, I work for IBM for 4 years, and at one time they | did not know what Linux was. I run freebsd at work on | my workstation, and have to pass it off as a "linux | distribution" in order for people to understand what | it

FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to my surprise, it was taken seriously. So, has anyone done any work with getting

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Bolingbroke writes: Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to my surprise, it was taken

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to my surprise, it was taken seriously. So, has anyone done any work with