Being pedantic, it's "IBM Z" (formerly z Systems, formerly System z, formerly zSeries). Operating systems always have a slash, because they're software: z/VM, z/OS, z/TPF, z/VSE. But Linux on IBM Z is not "z/Linux" officially, because IBM won't incorporate other folks' trademarks into names like that. (And as Parwez Hamid noted, IBM doesn't distribute Linux-yet! Coming soon.)
Also note that there's "Linux on IBM Z" and "Linux for IBM Z". Per IBM: * Linux for System z refers to the Linux kernel in 64-bit mode and Linux for S/390 refers to the Linux kernel in 31-bit mode. * Linux on System z refers to the overall Linux environment on System z It sure gets fuzzy when you talk about things like CMS that run under z/VM! Note that the eWeek article Michael Knigge posted was talking about zBX, I think (no slash, hardware!). Not to be confused with z86VM from Mantissa: http://www.mantissa.com/mantissa-product-families/virtualization/z86vm-functional-overview/ -- which, alas, seems dead or at least stalled. Vignesh wrote, in part: > I think zLinux is SLES or RHAT on top of z/VM Linux on IBM Z is SLES or RHEL or other distro, on bare metal or on z/VM. Well, not "bare metal" because there IS no bare metal any more: you can't IML an IBM Z without PR/SM. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
