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Re: Buildds slow/unuseable -> drop that arch



On Sat, 04 Sep 2004, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:51:08AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 04 Sep 2004, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > > Hi, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > > >> You can run Debian on hercules, and afaict there is non-free software
> > > >> involved.
> > > > 
> > > > Probably VM/390. I am not well versed on the s/3x0 world.
> > > 
> > > Umm, there is *no* non-free software involved.
> > 
> > Ah.  So it can run linux directly on the bare metal?  That's very nice!
> > I shall try Hercules one of these days then, just for the kick of trying to
> > get it to work...
> 
> On the s390/s390x itself you can run it either on the bare metal,
> in an LPAR (hardware VM) or in VM.  I don't see how this is
> relevant at all.

Well, Hercules emulates the bare metal AFAIK.  But thank you for your reply,
the paragraph above does explain it completely.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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