[Gllug] Lindows

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

I had a meeting with IBM about Linux 390 and they said that the applications
we could run are limited to those
that don't use too much memory or those that don't use lots of CPU. So
basically you cannot run anything of interest
on their hardware.

Robin


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Northeast [mailto:ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk]
Sent: 22 November 2001 20:27
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Lindows


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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