[plug] AS/400 and Linux

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Kev wrote:

> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:45:33 +0800
> From: Kev <kdownes at tpg.com.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au, intra at sonnet-tech.com.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] AS/400 and  Linux
> 
> My 1st question is, "Why would you?"  AS/400s are essentially purpose-built 
> datatbase servers, and OS/400 has the best industrial strength DB built right 
> there into it.  And even better, it's not M$.
>
> Kev
>
> Peter Tran wrote:
>> Hiya everyone,
>> 
>> Just wondering who on the plug list know on how to setup or run Linux on an 
>> IBM AS/400.
>> 
>> I have access to two units and would like to start learning in regards to 
>> its operation and assortment of fun bits J
>> 
>> Pete
>> 
>> 
>

I understood that PostgreSQL is the best industrial strength RDBMS, and 
that it is (or was, a couple of years ago) the most ANSI-SQL compliant 
RDBMS. Did the AS/400's really come with PostgreSQl installed?

As to the "why would you?"; surely that could have been equally asked of 
Linus Torvalds, the man who started Linux, and, of his predecessor, 
Tenenbaum, who started Minix, from which the idea of Linux apparently 
originated.

And, I seem to remember some strange action that was taken, by some on 
this list, I believe, in getting playstations of some sort, to run 
Linux. I believe that people take these challenges to run Linux on 
particular systems, for the same reason that Hillary climbed that high 
mountain in Nepal.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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  you'll know what the answer means."
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