Not sure if you have looked into this but I think IBM actually provides a service where they allow open source developers access to an S/390 for development purposes.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/lcds/ "Welcome to the Linux Community Development System (the 'Service'), a Service provided by IBM. The Service provides you with access to a Linux on S/390 environment for the purpose of providing the Open Source community with a platform to develop, port and/or test drive your products or applications on this platform. We anticipate the majority of users to include entrepreneur developers/vendors that otherwise might not have the opportunity to test/port their code to the S/390 platform. However, we invite all interested parties that meet the established terms and conditions to register and experience "Linux for S/390"." Hope that may be of help! Sam -----Original Message----- From: Matt Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Zimmerman Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Boyes; Adam Thornton; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stefan Gybas; Gerhard Tonn; Frank Kirschner; Martin Michlmayr Subject: s390 installation support in Debian 'sarge' s390 fans: As you can see from the attached debian-installer status report, s390 is one of a minority of Debian architectures which are currently not supported by debian-installer. Part of the reason for this is that access to create and reboot Linux/390 guests (as would be needed for installation testing) is hard to come by for most Debian developers. Without access to a development platform, it is unlikely that we will be able to support installation of Debian on s390 in the Debian 'sarge' release. I would like to ask that if any of you are in a position to provide Debian developers with access to such a system, and are willing to do so, please contact either the installer development mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or myself if you would prefer private mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to work out the details. Feel free to forward this message to anyone else who might be in a position to help. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
