Re: Cheaper Servers? - Been there - done that -- MIDRANGE-L

I think SuSE Linux and Red hat have already done this. But it requires
Linux running on the iSeries. A native X-Server in OS/400 does not exist.

Syd Nicholson


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>3)  If you think that x-server is the rage then contact the vendors you
>suggested (KDE or Gnome) and have them create one for the iSeries.  Or, if
>you feel that strongly that there is a market for it, then write one
>yourself.
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>Rob Berendt
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>To create a real portable iSeries IBM need to create a GUI AS/400.
>Unless that happens we will always need another PC system to connect to
>it.
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>A native OS/400 GUI and native iSeries display, keyboard and mouse. A
>prime requirement for a laptop iSeries.
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>The only 'native' display access an iSeries has is green screen text
>based. This must seriously hinder sales in an all GUI world.
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>Perhaps an X-Server type approach and a third party product such as KDE
>or Gnome would be the way forward.
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>Politically I don't think IBM have any interest in this. They work on
>the basis that everyone uses Windoze so they only provide GUI software
>(eg. CA/400, Ops Nav, Code/400) to run under Windoze. In so doing they
>FORCE all their customers to use Windoze. Please correct me if I am
>wrong, but I am not aware of any IBM created CA/400 software for other
>operating systems (eg. Linux). They insist we use Ops Nav, and Ops Nav
>only runs under Windoze.
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>Personally I concluded that even maintaining a small Windoze network was
>too expensive on my time. I now use Linux (much better, and more stable)
>and question IBM's commitment to Linux. They seem to want it on their
>servers (the words bandwagon and jump spring to mind) but I don't know
>of any serious client side Linux developments. I would love to see a
>CA/400 for Linux.
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>Syd Nicholson
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