Re: IBM Linux Ad during Super Bowl

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The idea here is that Linux complements OS/400, it's not replacing it as the
base O/S.  These are not desktops, they are WebSphere servers using DB2
Connect to get iSeries and M/F data.

Do file and print servers really need COM1 and LPT1?  We use X-Win 32 for
graphical access and PuTTY for character based access.  Our current Linux
servers on the M/F rarely need admin intervention, they just sit there and
run (with no consoles to slow them down....)

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
AS/400 System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

-----Original Message-----
date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:42:19 -0500
from: "Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: IBM Linux Ad during Super Bowl

> In my own shop we've been running Linux on z/VM
> for about 18 months.  Just last week my boss told
> me to begin evaluating what it would take to migrate
> our Linux environment to the iSeries.

Just as soon as iSeries hardware has a PC keyboard, COM1: (must support
digiboards), LPT1: and an XGA display card, we'll be ready to run Linux on
iSeries.
  --buck
   
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