It's legal to run z enabled Linux on Hercules. Not sure what you would achieve over just running Linux on Wintel but interesting in that you may then have marketable skills for a real z shop.
You can run mainframe Linuxes without fear of the license police. RHEL and SLES are battle-hardened supported commercial editions. Of course there are also free-of-cost mainframe Linuxes: - Fedora s390x <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x> - Debian s390 <http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/> - Gentoo <http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml> - Centos <https://www.centos.org/>, using RHEL instructions <https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/pt-install-info-s390.html> - openSUSE <http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Hercules_s390_emulation%22> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:09 AM Arthur <ibmmain.10.ats...@xoxy.net> wrote: > On 9 Apr 2020 16:23:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > (Message-ID:<026c01d60ec5$da038be0$8e0aa3a0$@gmail.com>) > robhbrid...@gmail.com (Bob Bridges) wrote: > > >This is new to me. I've heard of Hercules, but I never > >heard that it is considered, or that IBM would like it to > >be considered, an illegal counterfeit. Is there any > >ethical reason for that viewpoint? No, forget "ethical"; > >I guess I can make up my own mind about that (and there'll > >never be a consensus on it). Is there any ~legal~ basis > >for the assertion? > > My understanding is that Hercules is perfectly legal and > ethical. However, running an unlicensed, copyright > operating system (such as z/OS) is quite a different story. > So, as people said, running MVS 3.8 under Hercules is fine, > but any later OS is problematic. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
