CentOS - Oct 2007 - AW: CentOS 5 release for IBM z/Series?

Hi dag!

Thx for your reply!

So, there will be no release in the near future of centos 5 for Z? 

At the moment we got a realy small z/linux installation, but i love it. 
Keeping the TCO as low as we can was necessary to satisfy the
decision-maker.
So we decided to choos a free linux distribution, centos was a good decicion
we thougt. (redhat / fedora was always my favorite flavor *g*)
It would be great if we can give something to the community!

Personaly i can't help very much cause i'm the only knowledge carrier
here
for z/linux, with anoter colleague, and so we havent much time.
How is development going on for centos on z and how can we help so i can
talk with my head.

Thx for reading!

Greetings
nils

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von Dag Wieers
Gesendet: Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 13:05
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Betreff: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 release for IBM z/Series?


On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Nils.Reimann at izb.de wrote:
> i got a short question about centos 5.
> are there any plans to release it for System Z?
>
> i'm asking cause we are waiting for some mayor upgrades like php5.
We definitely are looking for people to show their interest and to
help out. If you feel strong about having an s390 release, maybe we could
create an s390 Special Interest Group, hopefully if enough interest
exists and we have to resources (mainly manpower) to build and support it
once again, it can happen.

More information about Special Interest Groups:

	http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup

I have heard other people voice interest in a recent s390 build, but with
nobody taking initiative and without hard numbers of interested people it
may not be forthcoming.

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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nils.Reimann at izb.de wrote:
> Hi dag!
>
> Thx for your reply!
>
> So, there will be no release in the near future of centos 5 for Z?
I didn't say that. I have no knowledge of it, but I am sure that more
involvement means either a higher probability or nearer :)

> At the moment we got a realy small z/linux installation, but i love it.
> Keeping the TCO as low as we can was necessary to satisfy the
> decision-maker.
> So we decided to choos a free linux distribution, centos was a good
decicion
> we thougt. (redhat / fedora was always my favorite flavor *g*)
> It would be great if we can give something to the community!
>
> Personaly i can't help very much cause i'm the only knowledge
carrier here
> for z/linux, with anoter colleague, and so we havent much time.
> How is development going on for centos on z and how can we help so i can
> talk with my head.
I have no idea, if I had known I would have told you.

Fact is that there is no mailinglist of CentOS on z-series, there is no
list of people interested in CentOS on z-series, nor is there a Special
Interest Group. (any of these would have helped immensely)

If nobody (of the people that are interested in z-series) takes
initiative, chances are that a year from now I have to answer the same
thing to a similar question.

And maybe there is more information than I have, but that surely is not in
the wiki and not publically available. (0 hits when looking for s390)

I know there is interest as on 2 occassions high profile
companies/organisations have come to me to ask about any progress and I
gave them the same answer:

``without involvement it is less likely anything will change''

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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nils.Reimann at izb.de wrote:
> Hi dag!
>
> Thx for your reply!
>
> So, there will be no release in the near future of centos 5 for Z?
>
> At the moment we got a realy small z/linux installation, but i love it.
> Keeping the TCO as low as we can was necessary to satisfy the
> decision-maker.
> So we decided to choos a free linux distribution, centos was a good
decicion
> we thougt. (redhat / fedora was always my favorite flavor *g*)
> It would be great if we can give something to the community!
>
> Personaly i can't help very much cause i'm the only knowledge
carrier here
> for z/linux, with anoter colleague, and so we havent much time.
> How is development going on for centos on z and how can we help so i can
> talk with my head.
>
> Thx for reading!
Let me also add that the centos-devel mailinglist will likely result in
more feedback (or has a higher chance of reaching people closer involved).

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