>>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience setting up and running Slack/390 under z/VM? > Also do you have any other experience with other distros (e.g. SUSE > enterprise) ? What are your experiences comparing the two? Or just > observations in general. I would love to hear from people on this! Thanks.
I have quite a lot, as it happens. :) It's pretty easy to install, but I'm used to it. The differences between Slack/390 and SLES are pretty big, from certain perspectives. You won't find any commercial software certified to run on Slack/390 (which doesn't mean it won't run, necessarily, but the vendor won't support you). There isn't a 64-bit version (yet). It's primarily a 2.4 kernel based system (so far). I created Slack/390 to give people a choice and the ability to run mainframe Linux without having to pay anyone for anything, ever. It was never intended to take the place of commercially supported and ISV certified distributions. I guess the question I would ask of you is, what are you wanting to do with Linux for System z? The answer to that will to a large extent determine what distribution you should be running. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
