On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:29:36 +0000 "Feller, Paul" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This has been an interesting email string to read. One question I would have > is if companies are not upgrading hardware (for whatever reason) are they > really looking at upgrading the software. Would it be the case that both the > hardware and software are doing the job and there is no need (or desire) to > upgrade the software. Apparently they are not ... at least hardly anybody tried to run a recent Linux kernel on these old machines, or the bug would have been noticed earlier. So I guess that these customers are at least only using a "conservative" Linux distro on their systems - likely RHEL or something similar. Now consider that RHEL 7 will be released this year (based on a kernel that still features 31-bit support), and you get ~6 to 10 years of support for such an enterprise distro - that means you have the possibility to get a distro with 31-bit support 'till 2020 and later ... do you think that people will still need 31-bit support in recent kernels by then (for RHEL 8 for example)? I hardly can believe so... Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
