[Gllug] Lindows

[Ian Northeast]

David Damerell wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, 21 Nov 2001, Ian Northeast wrote:
> >Interestingly the latest range of servers Sun are producing appear to
> >have the same facility and are being marketed as "mainframes". Plus ca
> >change and all that.
> 
> Only they don't, unless things have changed dramatically.

Fair enough, I just saw an overview of the things. Clearly they have
some way to go before they become "real" mainframes.

> An S/390 can
> have an arbitary number of guest OSes on (Telia have something like
> 4,000 GNU/Linux installations on one)

But that will be using VM. I'm not sure what the limit on LPARs is these
days (I think it was 16 back when I was last seriously involved in
mainframes about 5 years ago) but I am sure that you can't run 4000. But
4000 virtual machines under VM is no problem.

Regards, Ian

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