Re:dev-python/cryptography to use rust, killing alpha, hppa,...
by skissane on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:59AM
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I doubt many mainframes are running Debian.
IBM recommends Red Hat, SUSE or Ubuntu. All three come with commercial support contracts. If you are already paying big bucks for a mainframe, it seems far more likely you'd go with one of the IBM-recommended distributions than go with Debian.
(Ubuntu may have an interest in keeping Debian on mainframe alive because doing so helps them in offering Ubuntu on mainframe.)
Re:dev-python/cryptography to use rust, killing alpha, hppa,...
by duskwuff on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:48PM
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And I'd doubt even more that they're running Gentoo -- especially on older hardware, where having to compile everything from source is even more of a burden than usual.
IBM recommends Red Hat, SUSE or Ubuntu. All three come with commercial support contracts. If you are already paying big bucks for a mainframe, it seems far more likely you'd go with one of the IBM-recommended distributions than go with Debian.
(Ubuntu may have an interest in keeping Debian on mainframe alive because doing so helps them in offering Ubuntu on mainframe.)