On 6/7/09 9:00 AM, "centos-devel-request@centos.org" centos-devel-request@centos.org wrote:

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On 06/06/2009 12:48 AM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:

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CentOS Users/Developers:

 It interests me to find out if and or when any such CentOS 5 for

z/system will be forthcoming?

soon, we've got some real iron access as well now!

Outstanding!

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 I use Hercules and would love to play with CentOS under z/system via the

Hercules emulator. Funny how my personal mainframe has an "Apple" on it, and is 17" in size, ay? :)

Pasi can perhaps give you more details on this, but afaik, C5 does not work with hercules. There were some bugs that were being chased down about 2 years back, but i dont *think* anything has come from it yet.

Out of curiosity, would those be bugs be ala CentOS or ala Hercules?

IMHO the entire idea of "z/CentOS 5.3" faces serious devaluation if z/CentOS is unable to IPL within a "Hercules Iron" environment. After all it is for the most part those that have neither access to real iron, nor the licensed and supported variants of RHEL 5.3 that are interested in CentOS or that have no need for the level of support provisioned by an RHEL contract.

In the case of z/systems, this would likely impel one to believe that the very same populous of users are monetarily challenged to obtaining the very bare iron needed to leverage "z/CentOS" thus leaving them with the Herculean option for their foray into z/Linux.

Now, if the dysfunctional state of "z/CentOS 5.x" within Hercules is not CentOS centric, but Hercules centric, then the issue must be raised in the Hercules development community to compel its resolution. I know a lot of the folks within that community, I would think their attentiveness to such an issue would forbear a most accurate and expeditious extirpation of the offending bug once noticed to its existence.