Re: A boost for Linux on the 400 ?

["Neil Palmer" <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

No flames, but I did utter your name while turning on my toaster oven ! 
:-)

I doubt anyone would buy a 400 JUST to run Linux (you're right, it 
requires OS/400 as supervisor), but if someone were looking at running 
some new NT/2000 based app that was also available to run on Linux they 
may instead look to run it in a partition on a 400 instead.  Central 
control & management of your systems, like the benefit offered by the 
FSIOP/IPCS/INS (I hear the new official IBM name, keeping true to the rule 
of making the names so long no one can remember them, will be "Integrated 
IBM xSeries PC type thingy that sits under the covers of your 400 and 
behaves itself or else it gets a smack upside the head from OS400") will 
still be a benefit to many.

Either way, whether running Linux on a 400 or not, that article is just 
another straw on the camel's back for Windows and another boost for Linux.

...Neil





Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
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2000/12/28 13:19
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Neil Palmer wrote:

> This is the type of Microsoft "publicity" that just may lead more people 

> to look at replacing Windows with Linux - hopefully on a 400 !

OK, now, maybe I'm not seeing something here, but....   It's my
understanding that in effect Linux runs as a symbiant on the 400 and that
it runs on top of OS/400 or in effect requires OS/400 to be installed as
the base/hose o/s.  Which means that you have to have os/400 to run
linux...which is to say that Linux is NOT the base o/s on the box.

I think this is correct so far, and I'm sure I'll get a flood of email if
I'm wrong.

What the above scenerio begs is the question of "why would ANYONE buy a
AS/400 just to run Linux"?  Guys, you can get a raid-5/mirrored pentium
server to load linux on for a FRACTION of the price of a 400....
So, why would someone spend the extra bucks for the 400 just to load linux
on it?  I know.  I'm getting a pentium box now to load linux/apache on at
the office here...then my systems will be almost complete (NT, Linux, DOS,
Windows,NT server, (Super Secret system from Rochester MN that IBM
sells)...only thing left I might want would be a MPE box...:)

What don't I see here that I missing?

Don in DC (bracing for onslaught of flames...:)




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