>>> On 3/9/2010 at 11:32 AM, Bob Woodside <ibm...@woodsway.com> wrote: -snip- > What version of CentOS, and where did you find an installation > image? I looked around for one a year or so ago, but couldn't find one > that wasn't years out of date.
It is undoubtedly one of those older versions. > iirc, the CentOS folks used to maintain regular builds for > 390/System z, but seem to have stopped some time ago. I guess there > aren't any mainframers active in the CentOS project anymore. (Sad to > say, that sort of thing is symptomatic of moribundity in a platform.) It's more symptomatic of not having access to a suitable development environment. I recently pointed one of their developers to Marist College. I'm pretty sure he'll be met with open arms, as have many of us working on System z-related Open Source projects. Also, you're assuming that the CentOS developers that had been working on the System z port were "mainframers." Not really. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, there is some interest in mainframes from people that don't come from a long time mainframe background. The Slack/390 port, for example, was started by myself and an undergraduate student at Marist College. While I do have a long term mainframe background, Mike Kershaw certainly did not. He was not the only one by any means. >> but our management has decreed that all future development will be >> Solaris/SPARC or Linux/Intel. > > Why no Solaris/Intel option? I would go so far as to say, why no Open Solaris for System z option? (Of course "myopia" is the most likely answer, but rhetorical questions being what they are....) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
