Hello contributors and OSS friends,
(Who am I?) My name is Sascha Thomas Spreitzer and I live in the eastern outback of Munich in Bavaria Germany. I am 23 years old and started with C and GNU Linux in the early age of 13.
(What am I doing?) Most time I spend in the office fixing Unix dependant problems. Since now at Germanys biggest stock broker "Baader Bank". In future (starting first of April) ill design and realize AIX and z/Linux environments for the government insurance sector. If I'm not in the office, I go out with my girlfriend Lisa and we enjoy the little time we have together. I used to do traditional Shotokan Karate in JKA style. But stopped it a year ago, because I had no time left to do it. In holidays I try to gain progress with my software development skills.
(Why centos and what I'm up to?) I had a chance to get a look at IBM's z/Series in the past and it arouse my interest. Some years passed and now I have to face z/Linux in my new position.
From the skills I gained in the past and the skills i'll gain in
future, I want to contribute back to the community.
Since a decade I'm using OSS and I deeply esteem the freedom. It's time for me to contribute.
PS.: you can can IM me via IRC or Jabber: irc.freenode.net: sspreitzer Jabber: icefox@im.relinked.org
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
Hello contributors and OSS friends,
(Who am I?) My name is Sascha Thomas Spreitzer and I live in the eastern outback of Munich in Bavaria Germany. I am 23 years old and started with C and GNU Linux in the early age of 13.
(What am I doing?) Most time I spend in the office fixing Unix dependant problems. Since now at Germanys biggest stock broker "Baader Bank". In future (starting first of April) ill design and realize AIX and z/Linux environments for the government insurance sector. If I'm not in the office, I go out with my girlfriend Lisa and we enjoy the little time we have together. I used to do traditional Shotokan Karate in JKA style. But stopped it a year ago, because I had no time left to do it. In holidays I try to gain progress with my software development skills.
(Why centos and what I'm up to?) I had a chance to get a look at IBM's z/Series in the past and it arouse my interest. Some years passed and now I have to face z/Linux in my new position.
From the skills I gained in the past and the skills i'll gain in
future, I want to contribute back to the community.
Since you mention IBM's mainframes, I assume you want to work in that sort of environment.
CentOS4 is available for zSeries, CentOS5 is not. If you want to try porting CentOS5 to zSeries, there have been at least two others. If you search the CentOS list's archives you should be able to find them and see where they're up to.
If you want your own personal mainframe, but without the expense, download Hercules. It's capable of emulating IBM System/360 computers and their descendants right up to the zSeries. Hercules hosted on a good multi-core PC running CentOS or Fedora should do a pretty good job of running it.
I used to work with these: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3168.html One of the cute features of the "New optional 3068 Multisystem Communication Unit to link two of the new Model 168s for a tightly coupled multiprocessing system of up to 16 megabytes of processor storage." was the ability to decouple the two CPUs and turn one computer into two, without restarting the operating system.
They used to run OS/VS2 MVS: MVS running in Hercules on a Pentium II is probably faster!
Hello John,
i managed to get centos 4 running on herkules -> http://z.relinked.org/ I used to work some weeks with z9 machines, but not from the linux perpective. In april I will start in a new position where I have access to z9 and z10 machines as well being part of the z/Linux team. I hope I can bring in the skills I learn from z/Linux.
In the background I used to work several years as a RedHat EL engineer and IBM AIX administrator.
Lets get things started. ;)
regards, Sascha
2009/3/18 John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org:
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
Hello contributors and OSS friends,
(Who am I?) My name is Sascha Thomas Spreitzer and I live in the eastern outback of Munich in Bavaria Germany. I am 23 years old and started with C and GNU Linux in the early age of 13.
(What am I doing?) Most time I spend in the office fixing Unix dependant problems. Since now at Germanys biggest stock broker "Baader Bank". In future (starting first of April) ill design and realize AIX and z/Linux environments for the government insurance sector. If I'm not in the office, I go out with my girlfriend Lisa and we enjoy the little time we have together. I used to do traditional Shotokan Karate in JKA style. But stopped it a year ago, because I had no time left to do it. In holidays I try to gain progress with my software development skills.
(Why centos and what I'm up to?) I had a chance to get a look at IBM's z/Series in the past and it arouse my interest. Some years passed and now I have to face z/Linux in my new position.
From the skills I gained in the past and the skills i'll gain in
future, I want to contribute back to the community.
Since you mention IBM's mainframes, I assume you want to work in that sort of environment.
CentOS4 is available for zSeries, CentOS5 is not. If you want to try porting CentOS5 to zSeries, there have been at least two others. If you search the CentOS list's archives you should be able to find them and see where they're up to.
If you want your own personal mainframe, but without the expense, download Hercules. It's capable of emulating IBM System/360 computers and their descendants right up to the zSeries. Hercules hosted on a good multi-core PC running CentOS or Fedora should do a pretty good job of running it.
I used to work with these: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3168.html One of the cute features of the "New optional 3068 Multisystem Communication Unit to link two of the new Model 168s for a tightly coupled multiprocessing system of up to 16 megabytes of processor storage." was the ability to decouple the two CPUs and turn one computer into two, without restarting the operating system.
They used to run OS/VS2 MVS: MVS running in Hercules on a Pentium II is probably faster!
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Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
My name is Sascha Thomas Spreitzer and I live in the eastern outback of Munich in Bavaria Germany.
Thanks for dropping in and showing interest. There is a s390 build initiative in progress at this time, and I am sure we can use a few more eyes on that side of things. Over the next few days, I'll try and establish a more focused group.
Hello Karan,
maybe we can name some members for the new group or subproject, and start settle goals and distribute work.
:)
Build-env? build-scripts?
regards, Sascha
2009/3/19 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org:
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
My name is Sascha Thomas Spreitzer and I live in the eastern outback of Munich in Bavaria Germany.
Thanks for dropping in and showing interest. There is a s390 build initiative in progress at this time, and I am sure we can use a few more eyes on that side of things. Over the next few days, I'll try and establish a more focused group.
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Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
Hello Karan,
maybe we can name some members for the new group or subproject, and start settle goals and distribute work.
:)
Build-env? build-scripts?
do you have real iron access ? can parts of that be opened upto other people ?
Hello Karan,
not yet, starting at first of april. I hope to spare a vm to the community then. ;)
feel regarded, Sascha ;)
2009/3/23 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org:
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
Hello Karan,
maybe we can name some members for the new group or subproject, and start settle goals and distribute work.
:)
Build-env? build-scripts?
do you have real iron access ? can parts of that be opened upto other people ?
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