5 Jun
2003
5 Jun
'03
18:12
Ben Rosenberg
when in fact it was SuSE who ported Linux to the S/390 Mainframe. They had hardware and support for this from IBM but it was SuSE who did it..hence SuSE being the only viable Linux port to run on these beasts.
No, that's not true. The port to S/390, specially porting the basic core stuff like kernel, gcc, binutils and glibc was done by and is still maintained by people from IBM. SuSE's part was (and is :) mostly the classic distributor's work, i.e. package it all in one distribution together with an installation program, integrate patches/code drops from IBM and so on. Philipp