Re: Prefered Linux Dialect...

no...jaz drives ruled. I actually had different os's installed on
those bad boys.


On 5/2/05, Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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