Linux on an AS/400?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Mar 26, 2006, at 15:13, Dan Coutu wrote:

> I have access to a fairly cheap AS/400 and am wondering if Linux will 
> in fact run on it. Preliminary research indicates that it might but I 
> thought I'd ask here in case anyone actually has experience with it. 
> Do I need a version of Linux, like RHEL, that is blessed by IBM?

Just make sure to check on the models.  I've worked with old clunky 
(slow slow slow) hardware called an AS/400 and a new dual/quad-core 
Power 5 box called an AS/400 (at least by the IBM field guys).  They're 
also called iSeries and if it can run OS/400 it's often called an 
AS/400.

Those new Power 5 boxes are super sweet.  They have a hypervisor that 
explicitly supports linux.  I understand folks are using linux tools to 
manage/backup the OS/400 data.  The hypervisor lets you share virtual 
disks among OS's.

-Bill

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