It runs in native mode (bare metal). Done that. It runs in LPAR - done that, too. And it runs as a guest under VM - do that all day every day. It's good stuff.
Linux on S390 is an ASCII machine - USS under OS/390 is EBCDIC - that's often a nightmare when trying to port software - ask me, I know - it's my day job!
Linux on S390 supports ext2fs. It's reasonable to expect there will be a CMS filesystem driver some day as well.
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It runs in native mode (bare metal). Done that. It
runs in LPAR - done that, too. And it runs as a
guest under VM - do that all day every day. It's
good stuff.
Linux on S390 is an ASCII machine - USS under
OS/390 is EBCDIC - that's often a nightmare when
trying to port software - ask me, I know - it's
my day job!
Linux on S390 supports ext2fs. It's reasonable to
expect there will be a CMS filesystem driver some
day as well.
All in all, Linux on S390 is pretty darn good.