Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-20 Thread John Summerfield
Evans, Kevin R wrote: Currently we're using RHEL4 on z and Fedora Core for desktops. We keep running into a wall with Java and different products using different versions of Java. Between the GNU Java compiler, IBM's Java for Eclipse with MQ Series to Sun Java for AJAX. We're swimming in too

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/20/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATI and nVidia video drivers have a certain reputation: I don't use them, but it seems not all users of either are entirely happy. I trust you did notice he was asking about Linux on z/VM... And even on Intel platform I would hope the

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-20 Thread John Summerfield
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 9/20/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATI and nVidia video drivers have a certain reputation: I don't use them, but it seems not all users of either are entirely happy. I trust you did notice he was asking about Linux on z/VM... And even on Intel

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 09/20/2006 at 02:18 ZE2, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a single OSA portname in the device that must be presented by the Linux device driver is a pretty dumb idea when you want to virtualize things. Right. So why specify the OSA portname? We got rid of that

RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-19 Thread Evans, Kevin R
One of the developers who is closer to our XML project here than me (which will run under zLinux and eventually zVM) has been having some issues with RHEL and has asked me to bounce a couple of questions of you more knowledgeable folks. Here goes: Currently we're using RHEL4 on z and Fedora

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/19/06, Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the need for multiple Java installations exist with all linux distributions for zSeries (especially SUSE) ? I fear you're correct. I also found middleware come with their own version of Java shipped along with the product. And it may

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-19 Thread David Boyes
Currently we're using RHEL4 on z and Fedora Core for desktops. We keep running into a wall with Java and different products using different versions of Java. Between the GNU Java compiler, IBM's Java for Eclipse with MQ Series to Sun Java for AJAX. We're swimming in too many version of Java