March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
17h 10m
English
book
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
by Rufus Credle, Faheem Altaf, Serena Chan, Fernanda Gomes, Sunil Hiranniah, Pralhad Khatri, Shun Zhong Li, Vikrant Mastoli
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472 IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
9.1 Introduction
This chapter provides guidelines and recommendations for installing WebSphere
Portal V5.0 software components in a Linux for zSeries environment with Setup
Manager, the software installer provided with WebSphere Portal and supported
by IBM.
9.2 WebSphere Portal installation overview
Linux distributions for zSeries are currently available from three major Linux
distributors: SUSE, Turbolinux and Red Hat.
Current Linux distributions are based on Linux kernel 2.4. These distributions
include basic services like DHCP, DNS, NFS, Apache Web servers, SMTP mail
server, and Samba server. The benefit of using Linux on zSeries is the total cost
of ownership (TOC) with zLinux. The TO ...