[geeks] are *BSD (and Linux) people "unhelpful"?

Sridhar the POWERful vance at ikickass.org
Wed Apr 3 15:24:53 CST 2002


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > (Of course, I preach FreeBSD over Linux for servers and IRIX over Solaris
> > for workstations... so maybe I'm a bit hypocritical).
>
> You can't run FreeBSD on an S/390.  You can run Linux, and on
> a z800 or z900 you get a metric kilobuttload of server partitions,
> with the benefit of z/VM underneath.

Well, before not too long (if all goes well), you should be able to do
NetBSD on a z.

Peace...  Sridhar



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