Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-11 Thread Gregg C Levine
: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390;VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex deVries Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat? Jon R. Doyle wrote: I have too, it is my experience RH is new

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 02:45, Alex deVries wrote: Jon R. Doyle wrote: I have too, it is my experience RH is new to the multi-platform capability, but they are not new to marketing, they are great at that, ala M$. I don't think that Red Hat is new to non-IA32 archs at all. I'm sure I'm

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-11 Thread Florian La Roche
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:38:16AM -0500, David Boyes wrote: I don't think that Red Hat is new to non-IA32 archs at all. I'm sure I'm getting my years wrong, but they did have an Alpha and Sparc port throughout the late 1990s. At least until 2000, I believe. I remember talking with a

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread Post, Mark K
. Contact me off list if you would like more details. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Peticolas, Anne [mailto:anne.peticolas;mail.va.gov] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat? Hi

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:17, you wrote: SuSE and Red Hat both have a contractual obligation to provide Linux distributions across all of IBM's hardware lines. How often do you happen to know? The latest I can see at RH's ftp site is: ftp dir 7.2/en/os 200 PORT command successful. Consider using

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread Jon R. Doyle
From what I read on the RH site the other ports are custom hacks, supported through thier consulting. I know we have boxed kits here in-house for: SuSE i-series x-series (i386) z-series p-series ?-series 64bit Builds or kits outside IBM sparc amd-64 (sledgehammer) ppc-MAC I have too, it is my

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread Alex deVries
Jon R. Doyle wrote: I have too, it is my experience RH is new to the multi-platform capability, but they are not new to marketing, they are great at that, ala M$. I don't think that Red Hat is new to non-IA32 archs at all. I'm sure I'm getting my years wrong, but they did have an Alpha and

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Never seen thier Sparc port, wow, I fogot Alpha, and I run one here on my desk, a Miata, good catch. Right they had a couple revs, last one CPQ had to pay them to do it. Point being they are great for MKTing, but IMHO SuSE has them cold on Engineering. But, case in point, the Alpha, the best

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:31, you wrote: I have too, it is my experience RH is new to the multi-platform capability, but they are not new to marketing, they are great at that, ala M$. RH has had Alpha and Sparc for years I think in both 32 and 64-bit. Recently it's culled some. I'm slightly

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Read good Marketing John, dig deep and you will see it is pay me consulting for ye hack Regards, Jon Jon R. Doyle Sendmail Inc. 6425 Christie Ave Emeryville, Ca. 94608 (o_ (o_ (o_ //\ (/)_ (\)_ V_/_ On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, John Summerfield wrote: On