Re: Fedora 11 on Hercules

This mail is mostly just to avoid confusion for others who may read this
post and might get the impression that Fedora is the only Linux distro to
support S/390.

On Friday 26 June 2009, Harold Grovesteen wrote:
> The only other distribution to directly include the Hercules community
> was Debian many years ago.

I'm not sure, but if you're saying here that Debian no longer supports
s/390 then you are very much mistaken.

Installing Debian in Hercules is just as trivial as installing Debian on
any of the other platforms Debian supports, and obviously installing gcc
is (and always has been) as simple as 'apt-get install gcc', along with
some 24,000 other packages (only counting the 'main' archive).

Oh, and I've been cross-compiling my s390 kernels without any problems on
x86_64 for some time now using the cross-toolchain packages from
Emdebian.

I'm happy that you've found an environment that works for you (choice is
good + freedom to choose and all that). What I don't get is that you seem
to imply that the availability of such an environment is something
completely new.
I installed my primairy s390 system in Hercules almost 5 years ago and
it's been running Debian unstable happily ever since.

Cheers,
FJP

P.S. I tested Linux 2.6.31-rc1 in hercules yesterday and it runs fine.