Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Nov 30, 2007 12:41 AM, Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] The excessive number of blank lines in your post are to me by far the most informative part of your contribution to this thread. Rob -- For LINUX-390

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Evans, Kevin R
Little piddley PC - handheld. K -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz On Fri, Nov 30,

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I've been watching the OQO for a couple of years now. The only thing holding me back has been the price. There are a number of similar devices in the UMPC form factor. I DID buy a mini-pc a couple of years ago that runs Linux and Hercules very well. It's about the size of a CD player, but that

Re: SuSE sudo levels

2007-11-30 Thread Kim Goldenberg
Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: SuSE sudo levels We are working on a project to consolidate Linux userid management. We are moving our Linux Users from each Linux Guest and will manage them using CA-ACF2 and PAM. Interesting; I'm about to embark on the same process. However we ran into

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
Rich Smrcina wrote: If you do a Google search on Linux OQO you'll get a bunch of hits. Puppy Linux, Ubuntu and some others. Last year a guy at the bowling alley was playing with one, pretty cool! I think Puppy's quite small, and then there's DSL. Imagine someone turning up at a job

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Eric Gericke
parsimonious thrift!!! - Original Message - From: John Summerfield To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:21:46 +0900 McKown, John wrote: Many object to the phrase kill list

Re: From the Ubuntu Book - Second Edition ISBN 9780132354134

2007-11-30 Thread Ivan Warren
Mark Post wrote: Yes, they're now trying to push Ubuntu in the server market. I have no idea just how minuscule their market share is in that regard, but I imagine it's pretty small. Most people who really want a F/LOSS server have gone with Debian. Those who are more pragmatic use SLES or

Re: server numbers was Linux community

2007-11-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I was at a CMG Canada presentation that was a repeat of the one given at SHARE regarding this project. I thought the number was closer to 140; that could just be the ORACLE serversn though (my so-called mind could be failing). That was with three IFL's. You can go up to 54 of them. While not

Re: From the Ubuntu Book - Second Edition ISBN 9780132354134

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 8:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ivan Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Post wrote: Yes, they're now trying to push Ubuntu in the server market. I have no idea just how minuscule their market share is in that regard, but I imagine it's pretty small. Most

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is that a threat? Seems to me something _I_ don't understand here. I didn't, either. But, the discussion was getting dicey! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

OpenSolaris Follows Linux to the Mainframe

2007-11-30 Thread Rich Smrcina
http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9826527-39.html -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2008 - Chattanooga - April 18-22, 2008

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
John Summerfield wrote: Rich Smrcina wrote: If you do a Google search on Linux OQO you'll get a bunch of hits. Puppy Linux, Ubuntu and some others. Last year a guy at the bowling alley was playing with one, pretty cool! I think Puppy's quite small, and then there's DSL. Imagine someone

Re: SuSE sudo levels

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Post wrote: SLES9 SP4 is well under way. I can't find the RPMs associated with it right now, so I can't tell if the version of sudo will be newer or not. I suspect it will not be newer. If you download sudo from source and compile it yourself, it will void support for sudo, but not

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
Ivan Warren wrote: The day I showed that to some IBM person, he kind of freaked out.. Not because I was running hercules.. But because I was running VM on a *HP* branded machine[1] ;) --Ivan [1] In retrospect, I now realize how gross that was ! yeah, should have been a Fujitsu-branded

Re: Building kernel modules on Linux 390

2007-11-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Coming into this a bit late, so sorry if I missed the point... On Red Hat, there's a supplied kernel-devel package that has JUST ENOUGH of the kernel source to allow you to build third-party modules. You only really need the full source package if you're going to rebuild the kernel itself, or

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Rich Smrcina
If you do a Google search on Linux OQO you'll get a bunch of hits. Puppy Linux, Ubuntu and some others. Last year a guy at the bowling alley was playing with one, pretty cool! Jay Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:30:49PM -0500, Gentry, Stephen wrote: Mark, goto oqo.com I didn't

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 30, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Jay Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:30:49PM -0500, Gentry, Stephen wrote: Mark, goto oqo.com I didn't know such a device existed, but it was inevitable that it would. Yeah, it would be pretty neat with it running Hercules and then a mainframe os Has

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Jay Maynard
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:30:49PM -0500, Gentry, Stephen wrote: Mark, goto oqo.com I didn't know such a device existed, but it was inevitable that it would. Yeah, it would be pretty neat with it running Hercules and then a mainframe os Has anyone gotten Linux running on it? I'm not

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Mark, goto oqo.com I didn't know such a device existed, but it was inevitable that it would. Yeah, it would be pretty neat with it running Hercules and then a mainframe os Steve G. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 8:36 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hall, Ken (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my personal fantasies is to run zOS under Hercules on an OQO. What's an OQO? I haven't seen that name before. Mark Post

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread David Boyes
But first we would need a really good PL/I compiler, which in itself, is not a bad thing. I would really like to have a reasonable alternative to C for implementing things in Linux, for all of the reasons plus some, that DB mentions below. Multics actually has a good PL/1 compiler; it's the

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Anton Britz
Hi, I am here... just busy doing some real work but I would answer some questions quickly : a) What am doing on this list ? We are running Susse Linux on a Z box and we are also runiing Linux on Servers... and gradually phasing Microsoft out.. Even at home I am phasing Linux-Mce in but it's

Re: server numbers was Linux community

2007-11-30 Thread David Kreuter
An old aphorism from a boxing gym: it's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. I can have less than 10 linux Domino servers providing mail to over 100,000 users - - or 200 servers doing Oracle - - or 300 doing WAS - You get the picture. It's all in the apps.

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of John Summerfield McKown, John wrote: Many object to the phrase kill list that is often used by people to describe email which is automatically deleted upon reception. I once got a very strong email for using the

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
Eric Gericke wrote: parsimonious thrift!!! That's not the primary meaning here, and the whole point. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
McKown, John wrote: Many object to the phrase kill list that is often used by people to describe email which is automatically deleted upon reception. I once got a very strong email for using the phrase twit list. Apparently that word is much stronger in other parts of the world than it is here

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread David Boyes
accumulator patterns in the proper DEC colors. Includes REAL Emacs, and most of the DEC languages (Bliss, C, COBOL, Fortran, etc) that survived. As they used to say Bliss is ignorance ;) On the other hand, at least it (Bliss) actually shipped to customers (vis a vis PL/S). You could fix the

Re: SuSE sudo levels

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 9:31 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Here is the problem, we are running the following guests: SuSE SLES10x SP1 Kernel 2.6.16.53-0.18-default with Sudo version 1.6.8p12 SuSE SLES9x SP3 Kernel

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Free speech is a good thing but if you do not agree with me, it does not imply that you are a terrorist and should be bombed/killed... even if you are in another Continent. Is that a threat? Do you not get it? Nobody is truly interested in your posts! - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

PL/I on Linux (was Re: Linux community.....)

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Mark. I'm aware of that effort and I have been keeping an eye on it from time to time. It does look promising, and we'll know a lot more when it finally begins to generate real executable code. BTW, if you go to the SourceForge page for the project and download the current *.zip file,

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:46 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- b) Why do I have spaces in my email and lets debate the spaces in my email ? I am not going here because this should not be relevant to the debate and hopefully, I do not get

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Dave Jones wrote: But first we would need a really good PL/I compiler, which in itself, is not a bad thing. I would really like to have a reasonable alternative to C for implementing things in Linux, for all of the reasons plus some, that DB mentions below. http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net/

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Ivan Warren
Alan Cox wrote: I used to have Hercules running on an IBM PC-110 (handheld PC). Not terribly useful but very good for This is the new S/390 portable mind games with sales people. I did something similar sometime ago.. Had a stripped down version (S/370 only) of hercules running on an iPaq

Re: linux minidisk migration

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Pace
I shutdown Linux, DDR copy the minidisk, update the directory, restart Linux. If you have multiple CMS IDs you multi-task the copies. On Nov 30, 2007 5:20 AM, Jorge Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm starting a migration of linux minidisk from a 3390 group to another 3390s. First

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Perry
Dave Jones wrote: But first we would need a really good PL/I compiler, which in itself, is not a bad thing. I would really like to have a reasonable alternative to C for implementing things in Linux, for all of the reasons plus some, that DB mentions below. Dave, I think they are looking for

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Jones
But first we would need a really good PL/I compiler, which in itself, is not a bad thing. I would really like to have a reasonable alternative to C for implementing things in Linux, for all of the reasons plus some, that DB mentions below. David Boyes wrote: Yeah, I was going to mention that.

SuSE sudo levels

2007-11-30 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
SuSE sudo levels We are working on a project to consolidate Linux userid management. We are moving our Linux Users from each Linux Guest and will manage them using CA-ACF2 and PAM. However we ran into a slight problem. We use sudo to control root access and then define the privileged users to

Re: Building kernel modules on Linux 390

2007-11-30 Thread Wayne Driscoll
I think it was user error! I thought I did an install of kernel-source, but when I went into YaST, it wasn't installed. I redid the install and now it is there. Thanks for the help. Wayne -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent:

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Evans, Kevin R
There are other reasons to use Linux on Z as well. In our case, we are using it as a front end to handle XML input from our users. We run libXML under Linux, convert the inbound XML messages back to our existing message formats and process them right into the existing CICS applications running

linux minidisk migration

2007-11-30 Thread Jorge Souto
Hi, I'm starting a migration of linux minidisk from a 3390 group to another 3390s. First option is manual process: stop linux, dirm cloned from old to new disk group (or ddr), update guest directory, and test ! I've seen DRM tool and I've read some about DFSMS, but I don't know exactly if they

Re: server numbers was Linux community

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 8:09 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Kreuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: THE NUMBERS FOR SERVERS COUNTED IN THE PREVIOUS POST AT THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC ARE NOT CORRECT AS STATED. Nor do any of my presentations contain numbers remotely close to those

Re: server numbers was Linux community

2007-11-30 Thread David Kreuter
All: THE NUMBERS FOR SERVERS COUNTED IN THE PREVIOUS POST AT THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC ARE NOT CORRECT AS STATED. Nor do any of my presentations contain numbers remotely close to those stated in the email post referenced below. The correct number is on or nearer to 200 or so servers. Repeat: the

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
My wife got in trouble once for describing someone as niggardly. If you think that's racist, please check a dictionary, and don't vote. Dennis I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and

Re: From the Ubuntu Book - Second Edition ISBN 9780132354134

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 5:55 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Ubuntu is a world-class server platform today, providing evrything you'd expect from a server OS and with the human flavor that makes Ubuntu different. Yes, they're now trying to push

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread John Summerfield
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Free speech is a good thing but if you do not agree with me, it does not imply that you are a terrorist and should be bombed/killed... even if you are in another Continent. Is that a threat? Seems to me something _I_ don't understand here. -- Cheers John -- spambait

Re: Getting PL/1

2007-11-30 Thread David Boyes
When I heard that the Multics source code had been released, and that it included a PL/I compiler, I tried to find it, but had no luck. SYS:SYSOBJ.PLISTAGE1 on the install volume is the executable for the lexical analyzer. I'm still hunting for the source; the published version isn't the

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Adam Thornton On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Anton Britz wrote: In the mean time, we have to gradually interlace Linux with zOS, duplicate Scheduling software, Accounting packages etc. because IBM and zOS has failed us.

Re: Building kernel modules on Linux 390

2007-11-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Nov 30, 2007 6:29 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I get the source that comes with the distribution? I installed the kernel-source package, but it doesn't appear to have everything I need. That should have been good enough (assuming you already have glibc-devel and

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Carsten Otte
John Summerfield wrote: Don't forget the Windows doesn't actually run very well on Zeds. I'd say doesn't run, but someone here will stick his hand up and say, I've done it. Yea, done that in bochs :-) -- For LINUX-390

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Cox
accumulator patterns in the proper DEC colors. Includes REAL Emacs, and most of the DEC languages (Bliss, C, COBOL, Fortran, etc) that survived. As they used to say Bliss is ignorance ;) I have it running on my handheld -- full-on OPCOM and Galaxy batch in a shirt pocket. Now that's personal

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
One of my personal fantasies is to run zOS under Hercules on an OQO. Licensing issues aside, THAT would be cool! -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Cox Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:18 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:24 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Multics actually has a good PL/1 compiler; it's the hardware emulator that needs work. When I heard that the Multics source code had been released, and that it included a PL/I

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:59 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz snip Free speech is a good thing but

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 1:44 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jay Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Has anyone gotten Linux running on it? I'm not interested in a Windows box, but if it ran Linux, I'd buy one just to run Hercules on for the cool factor. It would appear a number of

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/30/2007 at 12:59 EST, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one said anything like this,until you did just now. From my perspective, this appears to be a threat against Rob, which is clearly unacceptable. Stop it. I'm copying the owner of this list so he can look and make his

Re: Building kernel modules on Linux 390

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Post
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 3:40 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I have a vague recollection that you also need to install the additional packages that ship the source of assorted kernel modules (like vmcp for example). Admitted my most intimate

From the Ubuntu Book - Second Edition ISBN 9780132354134

2007-11-30 Thread Anton Britz
Page 152 : The Ubuntu Server : The system administrator crowds, easily irritable and feisty by nature, were greatly annoyed: They procliamed Ubuntu was just a desktop Distribution and sauntered back to their caves in contempt. Luckily, the sentiment is just that.. a MYTH. Ubuntu is a