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Larry Bolhuis wrote:
> First things first an "i5" must be sold with an i5/OS on it to be called an i5 (ie 9406)
Makes sense but there is no requirement that you must RUN that partition. It's your box. However I understand that some functions to require one OS/400... oops i5/OS partition so you likely will want to.
> I'm being told that Linux will no longer run as a "Guest" running on top of i5/OS.
> It will run "Native" as a LPAR Partition as will AIX
This is incorrect. You will have the choice of hosted or non-hosted Linux partitions on i5. That is, you can configure linux partitions to have no native disk, tape, or network cards, or it's own disk adapters, tape, and ethernet cards or any combination between.Because of the pre I5 requirement for a primary partition, to some that made it look like it ran on top of OS400.
Linux never really ran 'on top of' OS/400, rather Linux just utilized an OS/400 virtual SCSI adapter to see disk, a virtual LAN to see the network, and the virtual SCSI again to see tape drives. This doesn't change. In fact on i5 you must create the virtual SCSI, LAN, and Serial cards to support Linux.
> Linux and AIX won't be supported on the i5 until 3rd Quarter
True.
> How this will affect Linux on 8xx hardware running 5.3, I don't know
Should be no problem. Wait, I've done it already! No changes. The issue for Linux is the POWER5 processor needing a new Linux Kernel.
John Ross www.netshare400.com
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