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Main Linux Distros Port To IBM's S/390

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looks-pretty-big dept.

SuSE has announced that they are going to release a beta SuSE Linux for IBM's S/390. A beta version will be out in late June. TurboLinux has signed an agreement to port their Linux distribution to S/390 as well. The only major distributor that is missing here is Redhat. What do you think about Linux distributions and the S/390??

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  1. What do I think? by FascDot+Killed+My+Pr · · Score: 5

    If you give me a free S/390 I'll do a review for you...
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  2. Slackware port for 6502 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Following the recent announcements that SuSE and TurboLinux will be releaseing Linux for the IBM S/390 and RedHat's release for the Itanium, Slackware have announced a release for the Commodore 64.

    "It just seemed logical to go for a machine with a huge userbase." Said a spokesman with a funny last name who was probably called Rob or something. "Linux scales remarkable well to small machines. In fact much better than it does large servers."

    Critics of the company are sceptical about whether the system will be reliable since it comes on tape.

    "I just used the CD record feature on my stereo" said Rob. "It works for music so why not data?"

    When asked whether a spectrumversion would be available, Rob said "It all depends on the success of this version. We're hoping to port it to all Z80 based machines, and possibly even pre-electronic machines".

    Charles Babbage was not available for comment