Re: Fedora 11 on Hercules

>What version of the Installation Files did you get?  The one we have fails
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>From: hercules-390@... [mailto:hercules-390@...] On
>Behalf Of Harold Grovesteen
>Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:51 AM
>To: hercules-390@...
>Subject: [hercules-390] Fedora 11 on Hercules
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>I just want to share with everyone my personal experience with the
>Fedora 11 disk image. This is a winner! Particularly if you already
>run Linux as your Hercules host. If you run Windows for your Hercules
>host, the networking may be a bit challenging.
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>One of the tools I have wanted for some time has been a gcc compiler
>that produces mainframe object on my desktop. I was surprised to find
>that gcc is not already pre-installed on the disk image. However, 'yum
>install gcc' worked out the box to download it and dependencies and
>install them. This was very slick.
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>There is way too much "voodoo and black magic" in cross-compiling gcc.
>I never got that to succeed. In the past, getting Linux installed
>seemed to be a real hurdle. Just look at some of the posts with links
>that explain it. Not simple. With other priorities, I never took the
>time to get past those. If you want a modern Linux on Hercules, this is
>absolutely the simplest path to get there.
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>Fedora on the mainframe is no doubt not primarily about Hercules. They
>obviously are targeting the corporate users of mainframes. However, by
>including this community in the sphere of their outreach allows us to
>benefit as well. Novell never did this. openSUSE does not include the
>mainframe at all. The only other distribution to directly include the
>Hercules community was Debian many years ago. Even Centos that used
>Hercules to develop its mainframe distribution, did not provide a
>pre-installed image that I recall.
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>The folks who developed the Hercules support deserve our thanks. I hope
>we can show it by embracing their work and providing input back to their
>effort. It is after all about community.
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>Harold Grovesteen
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