[GRLUG] 322 Linux distributions

[Joseph Workman]

i always assume z series when I use or hear the word mainframe. I guess that
is because about 90% of the "mainframe" market uses the IBM z series...

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 13:05 -0500, Don Ellis wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> > <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> > >> I smell a Guiness entry here.....
> > > Not even close.  I've seen demonstrations of hosts running well in
> > > excess of 10,000 VMs.
> > Back around 2000 (or a little earlier) I saw an article by an IBMer
> > who was testing mainframe Linux, and started up 40,000 Linux instances
> > during his lunch hour. Much larger numbers have been reported since.
> > Of course, that was on what used to be called a "mainframe", and they
> > were all the same distro. Other records could be for most number of
> > distros on a host and for different class of host.
>
> At which point the records become tedious; how about: the most VMs run
> on a single host with an ASUS motherboard assembled by a ginger born
> under the winter solstice?
>
> These days what technically constitutes a "mainframe"?  I can buy off
> the shelf servers that support hot-swapped RAM & CPUs.
>
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