[TriLUG] S/390 Linux

[Ken Mink]

Thanks Jeremy. I was not the person that talked to RedHat, so I was
going on second hand info.
I'm downloading the tree now and have started reading the install guide.
Thanks for the pointer.

ken

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:32, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:13, Ken Mink wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >   I was wondering if anyone out there has any experience with getting
> > Linux onto a S/390. My company does some S/390 development and we've had
> > some customers asking for S/390 Linux versions. We've contacted RH and
> > unless there was a misunderstanding, the boxset of 7.1 from them is $10k
> > and there's no free downloads. That's way out of our price range. SuSe
> > is in the same neighborhood.
> 
> 
> >From what I can tell, the S/390 version of RHL 7.2 is freely
> downloadable; here's one local mirror that has it.  Should be on the
> main Red Hat servers too.  7.2 appears to be the latest with S/390
> support.
> 
> ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/s390/
> 
> There's a special installation guide for S/390 here:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/s390-install-guide/
> 
> As with all versions of the "Red Hat Linux" product line (as opposed to
> the Advanced Server line), all the software has open source licenses and
> can be redistributed.
> 
> --Jeremy, never used a mainframe but hopefully this is helpful
> 
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