[geeks] Interesting read

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:43:51AM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > > That, and you don't actually *need* z/VM to run z/Linux.  z/Linux will run
> > > fine without VM.
> >
> > I knew that, but the last I heard it really was a waste to do so.  BTW, have
> > you tried linux on your G5?
> 
> Both natively in LPAR and under VM.  Works beautifully.  The main benefits
> of VM with Linux are things like load management and backend access to
> z/OS on the same machine.  Things like that.

Yeah, but why run Linux on bare metal when it doesn't support hotswapping 
everything (or does it?)?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd