Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

Pete

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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