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

[Eric Dittman]

> > > (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.

The question is, will IBM extend the special Linux-only z/VM
license on the z-series to cover *BSD?  If not, the price is
going to make *BSD much less economical.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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