[PLUG] redhat on RISC?

[Wil Cooley]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 10:07, Steven A. Adams wrote:
> For what it's worth, SuSE in the s390 build is labled SLES7 and SLES8.
> Redhat also builds and markets an s390 and z/Series version in the 7 and
> 8 versions. It's doubtful that many will use these builds since they run
> exclusively on the IBM mainframe environments and are pretty expensive
> to support. For example, SuSE supports the SLES builds through a web
> site ( not adequate for prime-time ) and Mainline offers 3rd party live
> support agreements with the total support+OS package prices around ~42K
> annually. Redhat builds AS for the z/Series and s/390 platforms and
> fully supports it in Basic and Enterprise packages ( 12x7 or 24x7
> support respectfully ), and the cost is ~15K annually.

I believe RH also ships a PowerPC distro for IBM pSeries (nee RS/6000). 
The binaries work on Macs but the kernel and installer are specially
built for pSeries.

Wil
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