On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nils.Reimann@izb.de wrote:
Hi dag!
Thx for your reply!
So, there will be no release in the near future of centos 5 for Z?
I didn't say that. I have no knowledge of it, but I am sure that more involvement means either a higher probability or nearer :)
At the moment we got a realy small z/linux installation, but i love it. Keeping the TCO as low as we can was necessary to satisfy the decision-maker. So we decided to choos a free linux distribution, centos was a good decicion we thougt. (redhat / fedora was always my favorite flavor *g*) It would be great if we can give something to the community!
Personaly i can't help very much cause i'm the only knowledge carrier here for z/linux, with anoter colleague, and so we havent much time. How is development going on for centos on z and how can we help so i can talk with my head.
I have no idea, if I had known I would have told you.
Fact is that there is no mailinglist of CentOS on z-series, there is no list of people interested in CentOS on z-series, nor is there a Special Interest Group. (any of these would have helped immensely)
If nobody (of the people that are interested in z-series) takes initiative, chances are that a year from now I have to answer the same thing to a similar question.
And maybe there is more information than I have, but that surely is not in the wiki and not publically available. (0 hits when looking for s390)
I know there is interest as on 2 occassions high profile companies/organisations have come to me to ask about any progress and I gave them the same answer:
``without involvement it is less likely anything will change''