Re: Red Hat Linux on IBM Power for Dummies?

I personally taught myself RedHat using a combination of the RH and CentOS
documentation, but I had a strong foundation in Linux since high school.

Since it is not entirely clear for the question, how much you know already
about Unix fundamentals? For instance, a good place to start would be the
~30 "coreutils" which are uniform on everything from Debian to AIX.

I should point out I've never had an opportunity to run RH on Power, since
I'm still just training on a pub400.com LPAR and a V5R3 machine I bought.
My suggestion would be to try to identify the key things you need from RH,
and ignore the rest. You probably won't need to care about X11 (the
graphics drawing library), for instance.

Doug Dunn

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Rob, I got a distro of LINUX for home use to start learning more about it
from the CLI layer a bit ago. Each area that you mention would have a
corresponding component. Example for development maybe it would be Redhat
developer toolset is distributed in RPM packages. Here is the link that
shows support of LINUX on POWER8
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/linuxonibm/
liaam/liaamdistros.htm
CentOS is close to Redhat as well. I am sure I am not answering your
questions exactly as you are looking for.



On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What course of study would you recommend for someone of a long term IBM i
background to learn Red Hat Linux on IBM Power?
- Minor development
- Mostly admin
- Backup, recovery, installation
- Some performance
- Disk will be hosted from IBM i and I already do that to IBM i and AIX
guests. What I don't do is the guest part when it comes to 'x of adding
it within those 'x OS.

About all I do in AIX now is shutdown the TSM application and use the
shutdown command to drop it so I can perform dedicated maintenance on the
hosting lpar and the rack itself. We use MSS for a bulk of that but I
want to be more involved with this situation.


Rob Berendt
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