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* Redhat -- http://www.redhat.com | * Redhat -- http://www.redhat.com | ||
* Suse -- http://www.suse.com | * Suse -- http://www.suse.com | ||
| + | * Slackware -- http://www.slackware.com | ||
| + | Don't be put off by the name. I've had less trouble with it than with RedHat. Updates are timely and the installs work. New releases contain the most recent STABLE version available, and the price is certainly reasonable. Unfortunately there's no AS400 version as yet, but there is a S390 version, so maybe it will happen. It's a great distro for peripheral and desktop systems. Highly recommended by one who knows just enough to be dangerous, and has not had any problems making this work through 3 releases now, including the upgrade to gnome 2.6.x and X11 6.8.x. Is Redhat even there yet? Pete Hall | ||
Revision as of 00:57, 29 March 2005
The iSeries can run a full Linux system in a Logical Partition.
Some of the Linux distributions it can run are ...
- Redhat -- http://www.redhat.com
- Suse -- http://www.suse.com
- Slackware -- http://www.slackware.com
Don't be put off by the name. I've had less trouble with it than with RedHat. Updates are timely and the installs work. New releases contain the most recent STABLE version available, and the price is certainly reasonable. Unfortunately there's no AS400 version as yet, but there is a S390 version, so maybe it will happen. It's a great distro for peripheral and desktop systems. Highly recommended by one who knows just enough to be dangerous, and has not had any problems making this work through 3 releases now, including the upgrade to gnome 2.6.x and X11 6.8.x. Is Redhat even there yet? Pete Hall
