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 at 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! > > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, / with kind regards, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer http://spreitzer.name/