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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/9/2020 1:13 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

>> 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.

I don't think anyone buy a mainframe to run z/OS to run everything
in Linux Z instances.

But if you do have a mainframe with z/OS running some critical
application and you need to run some new stuff on Linux then it
may be attractive to use Linux Z instead of having both
mainframe and a bunch of x86-64 servers with VMWare.

I believe Linux Z is quite popular in the "very blue" niche.

Arne