One of the questions that has made me think was "What is the biggest technical chalege you have faced, and how did you overcome it". This is general enough for programers / tech support / sysadmin etc.
If the inverviewee comes up with nothing, or nothing of significance then thay have no real experiance. If they come up with a biggie, then you can see how thier mind works, and what sort of things they have encountered.
2-- It would be very difficult to imagine an applicaion that can take the resources of even a small mainframe. However this is designed for running in a partitioned environment. In this way you can have 100's if not 1000's of Linux images running on the same machine.
3-- The resorces are allocated to a virtual machine/partition the same as in other mainframe operating systems. One interesting point is that you do not want to allocate large ammounts of memory per partition as this is then fenced off. If the Linux image pages, it does so first to an area of common memory, making more efficient use of resources.
4-- You have all the mainfframe hardware resliance, however if the OS or app is flakey, there is no way to prevent if failing. However it should not affect any other partitions, Linux or otherwise.
5-- One of the reasons IBM is making it open to developers is to get all libraries etc. ported and tested.
6-- Thats a judgement each individual/organisation will have to make on thier own.
IEEE 1394/FireWire/i.Link is a sucessor to serial connections and is prmarily designed for comminucation between devices and a single host. It has mechanisms to guarentee bandwith to individual devices but is generaly for one transfer at a time.
Ethernet is a network primarily designed for communication between different hosts. It is designed so that multiple hosts can be communicating simultaniously.
It would be possible to create devices that talk Ethernet, iSCSI springs to mind, but it would take some setup, a DHCP srever or fixed IP address etc. Firewire is plug'n'pray.
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One of the questions that has made me think was "What is the biggest technical chalege you have faced, and how did you overcome it". This is general enough for programers / tech support / sysadmin etc.
If the inverviewee comes up with nothing, or nothing of significance then thay have no real experiance. If they come up with a biggie, then you can see how thier mind works, and what sort of things they have encountered.
1-- Because :-)
2-- It would be very difficult to imagine an applicaion that can take the resources of even a small mainframe. However this is designed for running in a partitioned environment. In this way you can have 100's if not 1000's of Linux images running on the same machine.
3-- The resorces are allocated to a virtual machine/partition the same as in other mainframe operating systems. One interesting point is that you do not want to allocate large ammounts of memory per partition as this is then fenced off. If the Linux image pages, it does so first to an area of common memory, making more efficient use of resources.
4-- You have all the mainfframe hardware resliance, however if the OS or app is flakey, there is no way to prevent if failing. However it should not affect any other partitions, Linux or otherwise.
5-- One of the reasons IBM is making it open to developers is to get all libraries etc. ported and tested.
6-- Thats a judgement each individual/organisation will have to make on thier own.
Consulting Times has a article which gives a "real world" cost justification example.
IEEE 1394/FireWire/i.Link is a sucessor to serial connections and is prmarily designed for comminucation between devices and a single host. It has mechanisms to guarentee bandwith to individual devices but is generaly for one transfer at a time. Ethernet is a network primarily designed for communication between different hosts. It is designed so that multiple hosts can be communicating simultaniously. It would be possible to create devices that talk Ethernet, iSCSI springs to mind, but it would take some setup, a DHCP srever or fixed IP address etc. Firewire is plug'n'pray. Spirit
The register reports that this is settled out of court. Also has an interesting description of the German lawer :-)
As this patch has good feedback for workstaion installs, has this been submitted to the main kernel tree as a config option?
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For those in the forefront of SuSE, when should I expect the 7.3 iso image to apear, there is currently only 7.0 and 7.1.. Did 7.2 PPC exist ? Spirit