After showing Linux on S/390 (in “secret”) at WAVV in October 1999 we thought there might be an audience for this. Most of us on the team at IBM were very surprised (well shocked) at how many downloaded the Marist distro. Working quickly Boas Betzler and Ed Gauthier got approval to take a MP3000 to LinuxWorld in NYC in January 2000 to showcase the offering. We were swamped at the IBM booth that year after Linus in his keynote said that “IBM has a mainframe upstairs running Linux!”.
Jim Elliott On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 21:27 Neale Ferguson <ne...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > https://tech-insider.org/linux/research/1999/1218.html > > "Dec 18, 1999 > > According to Alan Cox's 2.2.14pre14 patch, Linux now has at least > preliminary support for running on the IBM S/390 Mainframe. Rumors that IBM > has been engaged in a port have been circulating for some time, but this is > the first concrete code that has surfaced to date..." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Jim Elliott Mainframe Consultant Sackville Consulting Services / GlassHouse Systems Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
