Hi all - 

I just wanted to say hello and thanks for all of the effort getting this off the ground.  I’m sure the work you do here helps out many who use the Redhat Enterprise Linux environment in major corporations for taking a peak at what might be coming in the future releases for RHEL – this platform provides a great environment for learning, testing and development – without any risks production. 

I was able to install the build system you provided in July and performed the updates to get to what I guess is a pseudo version of FC12 – I am assuming that once the installation of the base system at FC11 is complete and new the new RPMS for YUM, RPM and xz libraries then performing a yum update get’s you to base that is s390x-FC12.  I am somewhat new to Fedora – I used RHEL 4 and 5 on zSeries for quite a few years so this just might be different with Fedora.

I just had a couple of questions. 

Is there a plan to provide a DVD ISO of this environment to perform an anaconda type install, using NFS, or HTTP etc similar to RHEL releases?

Will there be separate repos in the future to segregate releases – not sure if this is a fedora thing or if this happened just because s390x-FC11 was so new and Fedora moves so quickly that this time around things ended up rolling together?   

My test environment that I am using is based on Hercules 3.6+ and I have seen no issues with anything using it.  The information that this mailing list provides gave me the information needed to get the CTC / networking stuff working properly.  

Nice Job!

Thanks…

Phil Pinto