For 9.1? Novell also opened up YAST, the only bit of special sauce that had another license recently.
9.1 will be made open for free download in June. They usually wait a few weeks between putting the retail iso's out there for sale and allowing the free ftp install. All the directories are already there for private/authenticated users.
If you must have a free bootable CD media, you can make one. Take a look at http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=135 67 (mind the gap) for notes on doing it with the 9.0 version. The same will apply to 9.1 when it hits the public. Nothing to stop you from posting your ISO image other than the god awful bandwidth bill. Better to try the live 9.1 image, make sure it plays nice with your hardware. (it should, I know it picked up everything I tossed at it) Things work much smother if you FTP all the files to a local server and then install off that. If you have to have an ISO, they do sell one for a reasonable amount of cash. I agree, however, Novell should just let you download media rather than have you deal with the goofy FTP install.
Something seems to be terribly wrong somewhere - otherwise why would Sun decide to ship JDS with kernel 2.4.19 at this stage ?
Keep in mind JDS was a rebranded SuSE distro. SuSE Server 8 ships with the same kernel, so no real surprises there. I'd chalk it up to Sun wanting to invest the minimum amount of skin to get something up and running that also had a fair amount of application support.
As for why they did not just fold in the latest-greatest 2.6 kernel, I have an idea. I recently rebuilt my workstation and decided to go the Gentoo route with the 2.6 kernel. Got a new laptop and installed the new SuSE Server 9 beta with the same. All was good, until I tried shoveling on the first of the commercial software. DB2 v8.1 just had a fit with the GUI installer. With a wee bit of elbow grease I got it going, but I don't even know if my code is going to work yet, much less the app server and ldap. It should, but...
(Stir Crazy voice)The 2.4.19 kernel - safe, not sexy.
3) Suse is still non-free-beer. Come on Novell, letting hobbyists dabble with it at home isn't going to hurt anyone.
SuSE is free-as-in-beer, but you don't get an ISO install. Got to use the FTP installer, which is a pain but works. Novell also opened up YAST, the only bit of special sauce that had another license recently.
1) Aluminum cans have a thin coating of plastic on the inside to provent the soda's acid from etching the aluminum. 2) they have all sorts of paint on the outside. That's what smells bad. Not left over soda.
But, onto the other point: many geeks like high amounts of kinetic energy. It's true. Often, this love tuns into the irrational lust for wanton destruction of random objects. Sometimes, something is learned by the results, sometimes not. But it's the journey that's important (fun).
Saw the words Aluminum... high amounts of kinetic energy.... and mistook lust for rust. Yes indeed, they are on the pathway to zen. (grin)
I've got the pro, and it came with Codeweaver's stuff. I got office, ie, and a couple other apps up and running on SuSE Pro 9.0. Very cool. Not sure about the new 9.1... Someone else posted the Exchange connector was part of Desktop. (now free, btw)
SuSE's SLES 9 beta is pretty sweet. Installed and picked up almost all of the hardware on a t40p and t41p thinkpads! I was expecting that to be much more work with the funky ATI T2 graphics chipset.
The price from suse for five copies of linux is $598. Isn't this still almost half the price of Microsoft Operating Systems?
I've never quite puzzled out what the SuSE Desktop Linux is intended for... The price is higher than the SuSE Server 8 package and way higher than the SuSE 9.1 Pro, which is a pretty good desktop OS at comparable price to the OEM version of winxp home..
That said, the real Linux market is the Server market. If you price a five user win2003 server, it is pretty much break even with the SuSE server price. Go figure. Things get a lot more interesting when you bump up the CAL cost for adding more users to the windows side.
WebSphere Portal 5 bundled in some web based word/excel replacements. I think the idea was "use our portal, and use us to view (and edit) business content. You don't need office!" The reality was less than inspiring. I'd put it on par with the large number of RTF/HTML editors out there - clunky. Not sure why they did not put their weight behind OpenOffice, because it is head and shoulders above what they included with the Portal.
Happened to me a last month.... The critter that leveraged a weakness in a couple software firewalls would destroy random bits of disk. By the time I realized what had happened, my/WINNT/SYSTEM directory was pretty much hosed. Lets just say a reboot did not fix things.
Agreed, however... Just a matter of time before someone sticks a destructive payload on a more common exploit.
What is the difference between SuSE Professional and Personal, besides US$60?
For the pro version on 9.0, the crossover plugin (win32 apps on Linux) was in there. I'm sure there might be a couple others along that line of thought, but that was the killer add-on for me!
But, assuming he's not a terrorist, why did this student want to know about the underground tunnels? He clearly isn't going to get authorized access to them. So, what value was that information to him?... If he's got a perfectly legit reason to want to know, then he should tell us.
Who would actually believe he was mapping tunnels for an AD&D campaign? "Well, you see I was actually trying to flush out the slave mines and gnome cities a bit, and...." The suits would either laugh or send him off for a psyc evaluation. Labeled as a suspected terrorist or idealist might have traction with the ladies, flushing out the evil dungeon of the Balmer'og less so...
(our DM did this at the U of Mn - can't cast a stone since I was one of the players)
Not sure. Don't know debian's installer, but Gentoo does not. Grub does a pretty good job of figuring out HDD geometries, but does not take a stab at setting up any kernel. Speaking of linux (rather than win32, hurd, or any other options - don't know them from grub.conf's view) it would be nice if grub guessed what kernels might be in/boot as part of the setup.
Personal example - I'm most of the way through the third stage on getting Gentoo 2004.1 running on a new laptop. Just configured grub - made a typo, twice - and the reboot gave me a (very hard to read) file not found. My bad, I typo'ed and forgot to add kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r2 and the gentoo in initrd... but could not see the forest through the trees on that one. It would have been nice to for it to look at the possible candidates and stub them up as well. Might just scratch that itch once I get my "bonehead's guide for gentoo on a t41p - authored by a qualified bonehead" done. The wifi and xwindows will be the death of me yet.
That's great, and what about multiple kernel versions?/boot in a different partition that/? Etc. etc.
That is what 'expert' mode should be for - the folks who know the internals well enough can do grub or lilo by hand. There should be a next>next>next>finished option for those who are happy to live with a set of well thought out defaults.
I've got a zSeries emulator which runs on a t30 thinkpad and RH8. This way I can develop for the 31 or 64-bit Linux distributions in zOS - think VMWare. I could 'upgrade' a couple months back to a t40 thinkpad and RH9 - or run it on SCO (I kid you not) Unix on a xSeries workstation. Yup, thanks for the options.
I tried updating with Fedora, and it broke things hard. I would do any of the 'enterprise' Linux distros in a heartbeat... but no... Their dongle and 'special sauce' prevent me from trying any of the other distros on my own - they have to do it at the factory and don't support anything else yet. The RH 8 support contract expiring like it did was special too.
What did I do? I patched by hand for a while. Today, I pulled the thing off the network and treat it like NT 4. I'm hoping these ding-dongs figure out the support structure without me buying a third party support contract for someone who will do the patch management (that is safe for the emulator). I'm not happy (or referencable) right now...
On a professional level work now done on SuSE, then tested with RH somewhere later down the line by someone else... On a personal level, it made me hunker down and learn Gentoo. No more rpm's for a specific distribution on the boxes I keep out at my ISP, and I'm pretty close to the cutting edge with latest-greatest hardware support. Beta distro's like Fedora are not needed anymore. While the SuSE kit is nice (crossover plugin rocks), I'll be damned if I get lulled into sticking with a distro because of updates. Don't know about the new RH, have not looked back. Subscription security patches are not worth hundreds of dollars per year, per machine.
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I've built a couple audio work stations where I was stuck constructing a machine where the PC and disk were in the recording booth. Bloody propriety card/connectors would not let me move the machines out of the room.
Anyhow.. I watercooled the disk, CPU, chipset, and power supply. No fans and the SCSI drives were enclosed well enough the 'audiophile' found the ambient noise acceptable. (I did not hear anything) Since I was not using any of the overclocking peltier kits, the coolant ran just above room temperature so I did not have any condensation issues a lot of people have. The copper tubing piped to another room where it dumped the heat. Worked great, though you did not move it around.
How 'bout some support? Visit the Gentoo homepage and click the donation button in the upper left corner.
Forget the $5 paypal thing... Given the opportunity, I'd give this man a job in a heartbeat. Considering the caliber of talent, I would have no qualms going all the way to the CEO to snag him. I suspect there are many more thinking the same thing!
Just got back from a couple days in Vegas. NAB had tons of rendering demos and benchmarks. One of the more interesting things (I thought) was Nvidia letting you leverage their GPU's in the Quadro line of cards for rendering. (demo I saw was using Linux with python and C++ connections doing maya stuff, though they said Win32 was supported as well).
Otherwise, lots of people with software that farmed out rendering to clusters of commodity blade servers. The dual CPU 1U x86-64 was a screamer, though not as compact as some of the other arrangements I saw.
Better shop around a bit more...
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UML is perfect for HUGE projects where you have a large number of developers, designers and managers all of whom must understand what is going to be delivered.
Everything smaller should be interface driven
I disagree somewhat - UML can be quite handy in small projects. The trick is to make sure it is used as part of white board design discussions that help define the interfaces and communicate what we think we mean. My perspective may be a bit warped, however, as the only UML RAD tool I've ever used is a marker and board and none of our team know so much syntax that we fell into a common trap of 'coding' in UML (and the endless hours of making sure a diagram was just right).
As with all things, any power tool becomes a sander if used improperly.
All he would do on it is play Quake. For some horribly retarded reason, he was under the delusion that it ran better than NT Workstation.
Well, if he was playing on the server it was not actually that crazy. Microsoft nuked the tcp/ip stack with a service pack update a few years back. Limits the incoming tcp/ip connections to 10.... I had issues with my counter-strike server after doing the patch thing, and there was no way in hell I was going to pony up for a server license on a hobby box at my ISP. Hacking the registry could possibly fix it, but they were coming down on folks turning a 'workstation' into 'server'. Not worth the liability... For me, this was the point where I got serious about understanding / hardening a Linux server.
Does anyone actually know the differences between "SuSE Professional 9" and "SuSE Enterprise 8"?
World according to me...
SuSE Enterprise 8 licenses you for quad CPU boxes and higher. There is a Standard Edition that is a bit cheaper that has a two CPU limit. They have a 'third party' install, which is the part of the elephant I know. The idea is a third party like Oracle, IBM, or some other application provider can build against a specific Linux libraries and installed applications - SuSE provides support, and the vendor gets fewer moving targets. Makes life much easier if you ship binaries. The concept is similar to what RH is trying to do with their enterprise cut - long support life, stable server base, and a market willing to pay for that in production land.
Not to say SMP support is not in the SuSE Linux 9, but I would check for a license restriction if you tried to stuff it on a 4xCPU box. This one is geared for the desktop/workstation market. Everything is tossed in there, much like the Mandrake or Fedora distributions. The pro version adds in some other proprietary bits - the only thing that caught my eye is the crossover plugin comes with the pro version. Very cool bit of software, btw...
If you are a development shop, keep in mind you can get an all you can eat license for all the platforms for about 1.5k/year. If it is personal, don't sweat the SLE8 cut....
I can't speak to iSeries, but zSeries gives you some very cool options. One of the sweet spots is server consolidation. Rather than having a rack of machines to do stuff that really requires little CPU usage, you can run them as virtual machines. The zVM lets you specify how much ram/cpu each instance gets, so prod can get more resources in the day and test at night. The network cabling can virtual as well, and I/O is really fast - love the memory to memory copies. They make a fantastic web server. It does not make sense for a few x86 boxes, but a score of 'dedicated' dns boxes and you should see a payback.
Anyhow... odds are the customer looking at a zSeries is not looking to buy new, but probably have one in the server room already. It is more of a question of how do we better utilize existing kit. (A clever sales person will then be able to sell hardware upgrades to the mainframe as it now chews up more disk and mips, but that is another story)
The SuSE Linux 9 is targeted at home / workstation use. The current 'enterprise' version is 8 and it most definitely runs on PPC and getting active support. Got a series of emails yesterday from SuSE letting me know I have some maintenance work to do this weekend. (argh) Anyhow, not sure if the deal is still on or not, but last year if you bought a pSeries box they tossed in a 'free' copy of SuSE.
While they don't have a free fpt download for this kit that I know of, the bloody updates from xSeries (x86), eSeries (x86-64), pSeries (ppc), and zSeries (ppc mainframe) seem to be weekly with a unique email (for each issue and platform)- that will teach me to sign up for 'updates'.:/
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For 9.1?
5 67 (mind the gap) for notes on doing it with the 9.0 version. The same will apply to 9.1 when it hits the public. Nothing to stop you from posting your ISO image other than the god awful bandwidth bill. Better to try the live 9.1 image, make sure it plays nice with your hardware. (it should, I know it picked up everything I tossed at it) Things work much smother if you FTP all the files to a local server and then install off that. If you have to have an ISO, they do sell one for a reasonable amount of cash. I agree, however, Novell should just let you download media rather than have you deal with the goofy FTP install.
Novell also opened up YAST, the only bit of special sauce that had another license recently.
9.1 will be made open for free download in June. They usually wait a few weeks between putting the retail iso's out there for sale and allowing the free ftp install. All the directories are already there for private/authenticated users.
If you must have a free bootable CD media, you can make one. Take a look at http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13
Something seems to be terribly wrong somewhere - otherwise why would Sun decide to ship JDS with kernel 2.4.19 at this stage ?
Keep in mind JDS was a rebranded SuSE distro. SuSE Server 8 ships with the same kernel, so no real surprises there. I'd chalk it up to Sun wanting to invest the minimum amount of skin to get something up and running that also had a fair amount of application support.
As for why they did not just fold in the latest-greatest 2.6 kernel, I have an idea. I recently rebuilt my workstation and decided to go the Gentoo route with the 2.6 kernel. Got a new laptop and installed the new SuSE Server 9 beta with the same. All was good, until I tried shoveling on the first of the commercial software. DB2 v8.1 just had a fit with the GUI installer. With a wee bit of elbow grease I got it going, but I don't even know if my code is going to work yet, much less the app server and ldap. It should, but...
(Stir Crazy voice)The 2.4.19 kernel - safe, not sexy.
3) Suse is still non-free-beer. Come on Novell, letting hobbyists dabble with it at home isn't going to hurt anyone.
SuSE is free-as-in-beer, but you don't get an ISO install. Got to use the FTP installer, which is a pain but works. Novell also opened up YAST, the only bit of special sauce that had another license recently.
1) Aluminum cans have a thin coating of plastic on the inside to provent the soda's acid from etching the aluminum. 2) they have all sorts of paint on the outside. That's what smells bad. Not left over soda.
... high amounts of kinetic energy.... and mistook lust for rust. Yes indeed, they are on the pathway to zen. (grin)
But, onto the other point: many geeks like high amounts of kinetic energy. It's true. Often, this love tuns into the irrational lust for wanton destruction of random objects. Sometimes, something is learned by the results, sometimes not. But it's the journey that's important (fun).
Saw the words Aluminum
I've got the pro, and it came with Codeweaver's stuff. I got office, ie, and a couple other apps up and running on SuSE Pro 9.0. Very cool. Not sure about the new 9.1... Someone else posted the Exchange connector was part of Desktop. (now free, btw)
SuSE's SLES 9 beta is pretty sweet. Installed and picked up almost all of the hardware on a t40p and t41p thinkpads! I was expecting that to be much more work with the funky ATI T2 graphics chipset.
The price from suse for five copies of linux is $598. Isn't this still almost half the price of Microsoft Operating Systems?
I've never quite puzzled out what the SuSE Desktop Linux is intended for... The price is higher than the SuSE Server 8 package and way higher than the SuSE 9.1 Pro, which is a pretty good desktop OS at comparable price to the OEM version of winxp home..
That said, the real Linux market is the Server market. If you price a five user win2003 server, it is pretty much break even with the SuSE server price. Go figure. Things get a lot more interesting when you bump up the CAL cost for adding more users to the windows side.
Just be glad it's only under your pillow...
(Neal Page)Those aren't pillows!!!!(/Neal Page)
WebSphere Portal 5 bundled in some web based word/excel replacements. I think the idea was "use our portal, and use us to view (and edit) business content. You don't need office!" The reality was less than inspiring. I'd put it on par with the large number of RTF/HTML editors out there - clunky. Not sure why they did not put their weight behind OpenOffice, because it is head and shoulders above what they included with the Portal.
Does anyone know what kernel SUSE 9.1 will contain?
It has 2.6.4-52-default when installed from CD media.
Happened to me a last month.... The critter that leveraged a weakness in a couple software firewalls would destroy random bits of disk. By the time I realized what had happened, my /WINNT/SYSTEM directory was pretty much hosed. Lets just say a reboot did not fix things.
Agreed, however... Just a matter of time before someone sticks a destructive payload on a more common exploit.
What is the difference between SuSE Professional and Personal, besides US$60?
For the pro version on 9.0, the crossover plugin (win32 apps on Linux) was in there. I'm sure there might be a couple others along that line of thought, but that was the killer add-on for me!
But, assuming he's not a terrorist, why did this student want to know about the underground tunnels? He clearly isn't going to get authorized access to them. So, what value was that information to him? ... If he's got a perfectly legit reason to want to know, then he should tell us.
Who would actually believe he was mapping tunnels for an AD&D campaign? "Well, you see I was actually trying to flush out the slave mines and gnome cities a bit, and...." The suits would either laugh or send him off for a psyc evaluation. Labeled as a suspected terrorist or idealist might have traction with the ladies, flushing out the evil dungeon of the Balmer'og less so...
(our DM did this at the U of Mn - can't cast a stone since I was one of the players)
Good luck on manufacturing a uranium neutron reflector
I thought that was a boy scout badge. (I know, I know - still a fun read)
Not sure. Don't know debian's installer, but Gentoo does not. Grub does a pretty good job of figuring out HDD geometries, but does not take a stab at setting up any kernel. Speaking of linux (rather than win32, hurd, or any other options - don't know them from grub.conf's view) it would be nice if grub guessed what kernels might be in /boot as part of the setup.
Personal example - I'm most of the way through the third stage on getting Gentoo 2004.1 running on a new laptop. Just configured grub - made a typo, twice - and the reboot gave me a (very hard to read) file not found. My bad, I typo'ed and forgot to add kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r2 and the gentoo in initrd... but could not see the forest through the trees on that one. It would have been nice to for it to look at the possible candidates and stub them up as well. Might just scratch that itch once I get my "bonehead's guide for gentoo on a t41p - authored by a qualified bonehead" done. The wifi and xwindows will be the death of me yet.
That's great, and what about multiple kernel versions? /boot in a different partition that /? Etc. etc.
That is what 'expert' mode should be for - the folks who know the internals well enough can do grub or lilo by hand. There should be a next>next>next>finished option for those who are happy to live with a set of well thought out defaults.
Most things did not matter... but...
I've got a zSeries emulator which runs on a t30 thinkpad and RH8. This way I can develop for the 31 or 64-bit Linux distributions in zOS - think VMWare. I could 'upgrade' a couple months back to a t40 thinkpad and RH9 - or run it on SCO (I kid you not) Unix on a xSeries workstation. Yup, thanks for the options.
I tried updating with Fedora, and it broke things hard. I would do any of the 'enterprise' Linux distros in a heartbeat... but no... Their dongle and 'special sauce' prevent me from trying any of the other distros on my own - they have to do it at the factory and don't support anything else yet. The RH 8 support contract expiring like it did was special too.
What did I do? I patched by hand for a while. Today, I pulled the thing off the network and treat it like NT 4. I'm hoping these ding-dongs figure out the support structure without me buying a third party support contract for someone who will do the patch management (that is safe for the emulator). I'm not happy (or referencable) right now...
On a professional level work now done on SuSE, then tested with RH somewhere later down the line by someone else... On a personal level, it made me hunker down and learn Gentoo. No more rpm's for a specific distribution on the boxes I keep out at my ISP, and I'm pretty close to the cutting edge with latest-greatest hardware support. Beta distro's like Fedora are not needed anymore. While the SuSE kit is nice (crossover plugin rocks), I'll be damned if I get lulled into sticking with a distro because of updates. Don't know about the new RH, have not looked back. Subscription security patches are not worth hundreds of dollars per year, per machine.
I've built a couple audio work stations where I was stuck constructing a machine where the PC and disk were in the recording booth. Bloody propriety card/connectors would not let me move the machines out of the room.
Anyhow.. I watercooled the disk, CPU, chipset, and power supply. No fans and the SCSI drives were enclosed well enough the 'audiophile' found the ambient noise acceptable. (I did not hear anything) Since I was not using any of the overclocking peltier kits, the coolant ran just above room temperature so I did not have any condensation issues a lot of people have. The copper tubing piped to another room where it dumped the heat. Worked great, though you did not move it around.
How 'bout some support? Visit the Gentoo homepage and click the donation button in the upper left corner.
Forget the $5 paypal thing... Given the opportunity, I'd give this man a job in a heartbeat. Considering the caliber of talent, I would have no qualms going all the way to the CEO to snag him. I suspect there are many more thinking the same thing!
Just got back from a couple days in Vegas. NAB had tons of rendering demos and benchmarks. One of the more interesting things (I thought) was Nvidia letting you leverage their GPU's in the Quadro line of cards for rendering. (demo I saw was using Linux with python and C++ connections doing maya stuff, though they said Win32 was supported as well).
Otherwise, lots of people with software that farmed out rendering to clusters of commodity blade servers. The dual CPU 1U x86-64 was a screamer, though not as compact as some of the other arrangements I saw.
Better shop around a bit more...
UML is perfect for HUGE projects where you have a large number of developers, designers and managers all of whom must understand what is going to be delivered.
Everything smaller should be interface driven
I disagree somewhat - UML can be quite handy in small projects. The trick is to make sure it is used as part of white board design discussions that help define the interfaces and communicate what we think we mean. My perspective may be a bit warped, however, as the only UML RAD tool I've ever used is a marker and board and none of our team know so much syntax that we fell into a common trap of 'coding' in UML (and the endless hours of making sure a diagram was just right).
As with all things, any power tool becomes a sander if used improperly.
And for those using mozilla and fire*, take a look at the Adblock plugin.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Makes the web a nicer place.
All he would do on it is play Quake. For some horribly retarded reason, he was under the delusion that it ran better than NT Workstation.
Well, if he was playing on the server it was not actually that crazy. Microsoft nuked the tcp/ip stack with a service pack update a few years back. Limits the incoming tcp/ip connections to 10.... I had issues with my counter-strike server after doing the patch thing, and there was no way in hell I was going to pony up for a server license on a hobby box at my ISP. Hacking the registry could possibly fix it, but they were coming down on folks turning a 'workstation' into 'server'. Not worth the liability... For me, this was the point where I got serious about understanding / hardening a Linux server.
Does anyone actually know the differences between "SuSE Professional 9" and "SuSE Enterprise 8"?
World according to me...
SuSE Enterprise 8 licenses you for quad CPU boxes and higher. There is a Standard Edition that is a bit cheaper that has a two CPU limit. They have a 'third party' install, which is the part of the elephant I know. The idea is a third party like Oracle, IBM, or some other application provider can build against a specific Linux libraries and installed applications - SuSE provides support, and the vendor gets fewer moving targets. Makes life much easier if you ship binaries. The concept is similar to what RH is trying to do with their enterprise cut - long support life, stable server base, and a market willing to pay for that in production land.
Not to say SMP support is not in the SuSE Linux 9, but I would check for a license restriction if you tried to stuff it on a 4xCPU box. This one is geared for the desktop/workstation market. Everything is tossed in there, much like the Mandrake or Fedora distributions. The pro version adds in some other proprietary bits - the only thing that caught my eye is the crossover plugin comes with the pro version. Very cool bit of software, btw...
If you are a development shop, keep in mind you can get an all you can eat license for all the platforms for about 1.5k/year. If it is personal, don't sweat the SLE8 cut....
I can't speak to iSeries, but zSeries gives you some very cool options. One of the sweet spots is server consolidation. Rather than having a rack of machines to do stuff that really requires little CPU usage, you can run them as virtual machines. The zVM lets you specify how much ram/cpu each instance gets, so prod can get more resources in the day and test at night. The network cabling can virtual as well, and I/O is really fast - love the memory to memory copies. They make a fantastic web server. It does not make sense for a few x86 boxes, but a score of 'dedicated' dns boxes and you should see a payback.
Anyhow... odds are the customer looking at a zSeries is not looking to buy new, but probably have one in the server room already. It is more of a question of how do we better utilize existing kit. (A clever sales person will then be able to sell hardware upgrades to the mainframe as it now chews up more disk and mips, but that is another story)
The SuSE Linux 9 is targeted at home / workstation use. The current 'enterprise' version is 8 and it most definitely runs on PPC and getting active support. Got a series of emails yesterday from SuSE letting me know I have some maintenance work to do this weekend. (argh) Anyhow, not sure if the deal is still on or not, but last year if you bought a pSeries box they tossed in a 'free' copy of SuSE.
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While they don't have a free fpt download for this kit that I know of, the bloody updates from xSeries (x86), eSeries (x86-64), pSeries (ppc), and zSeries (ppc mainframe) seem to be weekly with a unique email (for each issue and platform)- that will teach me to sign up for 'updates'.
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/server