From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 5 15:39:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles168.castles.com [208.214.165.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF99314C35 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:39:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07098; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903052334.PAA07098@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Keith Stevenson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: IBM reps/ADSM client (Was Re: Linux emulation failures under 3.1-STABLE. ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:05:53 EST." <19990302200553.A10700@homer.louisville.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 15:34:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I got it running under 2.2.8 a few months ago, but every time I started it, > the ADSM server running on our big OS/390 mainframe abended. This is widely > considered to be a bad thing. (The mainframe's administrator certainly > thought so.) I saw a posting to one of the FreeBSD lists about a week ago > which identified the cause of the server's death as a buffer overflow > problem. Last time I checked, IBM listed the Linux client as unsupported, so > I don't imaging they are very interested in hearing that we are having problems > running it in emulation mode. (I am leaning on our regional support rep to > suggest a FreeBSD port. I don't think I'm going to get very far though.) That may depends on how well we go over the next few months leaning on IBM. If anyone/everyone reading this that has contact with an IBM rep mentions FreeBSD as much as possible in the context of a server OS on IBM i386 hardware, we may be able to slingshot on the Linux-on-Netfinity moves that are happening at the moment. We had some very favourable interactions with IBM representatives at Linuxworld, some of whom actively sought us out having been pointed our way by external sources. There's some hope we can build on these contacts (and resolve the outstanding hardware issues as well). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message