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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:49:04 -0700
From: Steve Gibson <DDoS@grc.com>
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IBM Giving Guest Linux Accounts on Mainframes
IBM has this neat piece of serious hardware called the zSeries mainframe,
What's cool about the big box is that it's capable of running Linux in as a
virtual machine. That is, it can host over 1000 users to whom it looks like
they have their own virtual Linux box. The machine has 10 processors and 32
gigabytes of memory and 2.1 terabytes of storage. In order to encourage
developers to work on applications in this environment IBM is giving away
free accounts. As you can imagine the demand has been huge, so there is a
backlog of requests, but it's clearly a great opportunity for Linux fans.

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/lcds/

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Steve.

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