[Info-vax] CentOS has been effectively killed for production use

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/9/20 11:14 AM, David Wade wrote:
> On 09/12/2020 14:33, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/9/2020 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> IBM (who now own Red Hat) has just effectively killed CentOS for
>>> production use by turning it into an unstable rolling distribution:
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/centos_red_hat/
>>>
>>> Fortunately, at least in the Unix/Linux world, there are always
>>> other options.
>>
>> Supposedly there are about 1000 Linux distros.
>>
>> Arne
>>
> But if you want something that runs on IBMs "Z" hardware there are not 
> so many and CENTOS was one of the cheaper ways of doing it.
>
What, exactly, would be the advantage of running Linux on "Z" hardware?
"Z" hardware's advantage is that it can run an IBM OS something that I
don't believe can be run on any other hardware platform.  While Linux
can be run on damn near everything.

bill