Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,

interestingly enough, when iSeries/AS400 first started supporting linux,
Rochester was very adamant - SUSE ONLY! ....guess their tune's
changed....:)





On Mon, 2 May 2005, Martin Rowe wrote:

> On Monday 02 May 2005 16:46, JRB Technology wrote:
> > I would say IBM supports RedHat more then SUSE.
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Might still be true in the States, but IBM now are very supportive of SUSE
> (having paid $50M to Novell when they bought SUSE). In the UK iSeries press
> SUSE certainly seem to get more coverage.
>
> > Their Linux/ODBC Drivers are for RedHat........
>
> The drivers are in RPM format, but they install on SUSE just fine - as both
> distributions use .rpm files for installation.
>
> > RedHat is more widely supported as well.
>
> Again, that might still be true in the States, but all the BPs I've spoken
> to about iSeries Linux all recommend SUSE. In fact the BP we bought our
> iSeries from are a RedHat authorised dealer, but now advocate SUSE for
> their clients. I'm not sure why there seems to be a swing to SUSE, though
> from when I looked, SUSE's prices and support packages appeared quite a bit
> cheaper than RedHat.
>
> We have SUSE's SLES 9 running on a 1 CPU LPAR on our i825, but it's just R&D
> at present. We were planning to trial WAS on there, to compare it to the
> native OS/400 server, but as it turned out we went for the OS/400 version
> anyway. I'm much more familiar with Debian (and derivatives, like Ubuntu)
> but they are more tricky to install (though there are folk running Debian
> on iSeries) and don't have the cosy support factor that RedHat/SUSE do.
>
> Regards, Martin
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