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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/9/2020 8:31 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Prebuilt CentOS for Z:

old 4.9 version:
    https://vault.centos.org/4.9/isos/s390x/

never versions (under the name ClefOS as it is not an
official CentOS build):
   https://www.sinenomine.net/products/linux/clefos

Arne