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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/9/2020 8:23 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/9/20 7:41 PM, David Wade wrote:
>> Appart from being marked as IFLs the Linux dedicated CPUs are no 
>> different from normal z CPUs, well except IBM charge much less for them,
>>
>> This strategy stops people from switching to another platform and 
>> discovering that if you take care it will run as reliably as "z".
>>
>> Its good old fashioned lock-in but the Mainframe market is small 
>> enough that the "anti trust" brigade won't interfere....
>>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2011/08/03/ibm_eu_mainframe_complaints_dropped/ 
>>
>> I hope this explains why users run Linux on Z.
> 
> OK.  But I assume you have to get your Linux from IBM so I doubt the
> CENTOS debacle will have any effect on them.

Nope.

Linux on Z is not a distro, but Linux kernel support for Z.

The distro can be RHEL/CentOS or SUSE or Ubuntu or Debian
or really whatever.

Arne