Hi,
here we have linux on a linuxzvm machine (s390)
and we install our environment complete unattended via
bash and cmd-line. On the zVM Machines we install
HUB Spoke and TEC.
Also we have lots of managednodes (500) with linux-intel
(SuSE 8.0, not SLES 8) installed and in production.
kernel here is the last updated kernel from the distro.
At the moment we have lots of problems with the gateway process on the intel boxes. the oserv seems to work, the gateway process is running and answers via wgateway, but
in some situations i cannot speak with my endpoints behind
the gateways. Solution: odadmin reexec, wgateway restart does not help.
At the moment i will test the framework patch 55 in a test environment.
Even with this problems, i am very happy with the linux
boxes, the linux is stable and it is for free ;-)
I have ported our install scripts to work with linux-intel
machines. At the moment i have a little environment
with 1 HUB 2 SPOKES 1 TEC and ITM 5.1.1 FP03, and CM4.2.
At the moment i use Fedora Core 1 on this environment. Fedora has the same problem as Redhat > 8 with the IBM Java 1.3.0 code.
Due to other problems with this java version, i totally removed the IBM java from my environment and implement sun java 1.4.xx.
Until now, the environment runs as (un)stable as the linuxzvm on s390, same problems with hanging TN_prog1 executable and so i think you can do it with every distro you can manage