Книга: Platform-Specific Linux Distributions: Linux on Zseries, Ipodlinux, Yellow Dog Linux, Linux for Playstation 2, Free60, Xebian, Jlime

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Linux on Zseries, Ipodlinux, Yellow Dog Linux, Linux for Playstation 2, Free60, Xebian, Jlime, Nintendo Gamecube Linux, Dslinux, Xbox Linux, Gentoox, Familiar Linux, Black Lab Linux. Excerpt: Linux on System z is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially System z machines. Other terms with the same meaning include Linux on System z10, Linux on System z9, Linux on zSeries, Linux/390, zLinux, z/Linux, etc. Linux on System z originated as two separate efforts to port Linux to IBM's largest servers. The first effort, the 'Bigfoot' project, developed by Linas Vepstas in late 1998 through early 1999, was an independent distribution and has since been abandoned. IBM published a collection of patches and additions to the Linux 2.2.13 kernel on December 18, 1999, to start today's mainline Linux on zSeries. Formal product announcements quickly followed in 2000, including the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines. Commercial Linux distributors introduced mainframe editions very quickly after the initial kernel work, and these mainframe versions have now been available for several years. The first commercially available Linux Distribution for IBM Mainframes came from SUSE. SUSE started their cooperation with IBM and the Marist College in 1999 to move the available Linux code into an Enterprise Linux distribution - Since then SUSE took over the responsibility for Linux on System-z. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System-z is available to customers since 2000, either through IBM or directly through SuSE (Novell). Until about late 2003 the SUSE distribution was the only maintained and supported Enterprise Linux which delivered the Reliability, Availability and Scalability (RAS) as expected by I... More: booksllc.net/?id=1266604