Hello Paul, Rich, and everyone else,
Thank you for the info.
Is there a site that I could download a z/VM SuSE system? Or even
a SuSE system for a INTEL system?
The basic idea is to get people here comfortable with LINUX (get them
involved).
I have loaded software, proved it works (single user, trial, etc).
Then have gone back to get
the 'REAL' product and re-installed. Usually with much improved
results.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext. 40441
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Raulerson
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:59 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Question on LINUX
There are no costs that *have* to be incurred. However, all the zLinux
companies will try their best to get you to buy their Patch/Fix support.
For SuSE that has been less than $5K/year, but I understand the price
has not 'gone up' a bit. Don't have the details at this time, but I
expect they will make something fairly reasonable available.
Once you have a copy up and running it is pretty rare to need to change
it, especially in a production environment. And the system is solid as a
rock, especially under z/VM.
One note - don't expect good support on zLinux from anyone- including
IBM. All of the support people are basically Intel people, and don't
have much of a clue of the difference between DASD and a harddisk - and
no idea about how things like FICON work. SuSE has some really good
people in place who can help out, but getting to them can be a
"challenge."
On the flip side - it is cheap and works really well.
-Paul
