Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

[Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx>]

What ever happened to the floptical drives!  They were supposed to be 
our saviours!  And how about those nice zip drives that never seemed to 
go anywhere now that CD media is so cheap!

Pete

JRB Technology wrote:
> Yeah, our main DNS server was running on a P90 with slackware
> installed. Was up for like 400+ days.
>
> Hey, you could always back up to floppies! I heard they got like 3mb
> floppies out now!
>
>
> On 5/2/05, Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > A good portion of my data center here is recycled old systems running
> > linux for one purpose or another.  I'm looking into running an LPAR or
> > two on our new 520 to make use of some of the excess juice our
> > developers aren't going to need, while giving me an easier backup
> > strategy than what we currently have in place.
> >
> > I'd much rather use our industrial-grade AS/400 50gig tape backup than
> > the hodge-podge of cd burners and travan drives we've got sitting around
> > at the moment.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > JRB Technology wrote:
> >
> > > Why not just install Linux on a sperate box. All you need is an old PC
> > > if you want to play with it. It might be cheaper to buy a simple
> > > server with Linux then to spend a lot of time configuring it to run on
> > > the AS400 hardware.....
> > >
> > > -jim
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/2/05, Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone!
> > > >
> > > > I thought I'd put my two cents in as well.  I'm not too guru-like on my
> > > > 400 knowledge (still a relative admin newbie) but I've been using Linux
> > > > since '95 and I'd have to say that I'd prefer SuSE over Red Hat.
> > > >
> > > > It's just always seemed to me that the SuSE people "had their stuff
> > > > together" whereas many redhat releases have always seemed cobbled
> > > > together at the last minute.  Although I have a few friends that work
> > > > for RedHat, I do have to tip my head to the SuSE crew, since they've
> > > > always seemed to be the quiet innovators who deliver a solid distro.
> > > >
> > > > If I had my choice, I'd run Debian on an LPAR, but as far as I know
> > > > there's no debian project yet for the '400.
> > > >
> > > > Pete
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Larry Bolhuis wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I believe IBM's favorite is Suse. They use Suse as the base for the HMC
> > > > > code. I get the impression from those in Rochester that it is the
> > > > > preferred distro also.
> > > > >
> > > > > But I disagree. My preference is RH as it seems the distro of choice
> > > > > here in the US. I have 10 to 1 RH to Suse on the servers I work on.
> > > > > Although if you think IBM's key management is bad, holy mackerel try RH.
> > > > >
> > > > > My .02
> > > > >
> > > > > - Larry
> > > > >
> > > > > Don wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Jim/Larry, et al...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > you can now get both Red Hat and Suse to run on iSeries LPAR...  Which
> > > > > > one
> > > > > > is the prefered and why?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > tks
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Don in DC
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