On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:52:28PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:00:37PM -0500, Mark Post wrote: > > > You're asking for conflicting things. "Advanced" and "stable" don't > > usually go together in software. One thing you're going to find in the > > Linux/390 arena is that releases are probably going to be much less > > frequent than with Intel Linux, for example. You're also not going to > > find downloadable .iso images, except for the Debian distribution. > > Debian is an exception to both of these rules, in fact. The portable > software in the Debian Linux/390 distribution is built from exactly the same > source code as on every other Debian architecture, and all architectures are > released in sync, with the same versions of every package. I.e., Debian 3.0 > ships with Apache 1.3.26 on Alpha, ARM, HP PA-RISC, Intel 386, IA64, > Motorola 68k, MIPS, PowerPC, S/390 and SPARC architectures. > > Likewise for security updates, which are usually made for all supported > architectures at the same time. > The same is true for SLES8. See
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