Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 were not "commercial" product offerings from Red Hat. Red Hat introduced its commercial offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, which was not offered on the s390. So I believe that there is confusion here between what is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and what is Linux.
uname -r != cat /etc/redhat-release -Eric On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On 12/2/2008 at 10:50 AM, Eric Sammons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Going to try and help out David here, and Like David I may be wrong, but > I > > don't see a RHEL 2.1 AS for any platform other than ia64 and i386. > > The very first versions of Red Hat for the mainframe were Red Hat Linux 7.2 > for 31-bit systems, and Red Hat Linux 7.1 for 64-bit systems. Note that > these did _not_ include "Enterprise" in the names. When we were writing the > Distributions Redbook, only 31-bit versions of Linux were available, and > only a beta test version of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for S/390 was available. When > we were writing the book, it had a 2.2.19-0.07 > kernel, and an experimental (never worked for me) 2.4.3 kernel. The GA > version of 7.2 was announced on December 19, 2001. > > After 7.2/7.1, the next version released was indeed Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 3 for S/390 and zSeries in 2003. > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
