June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
The ease at which Linux applications can be ported to the mainframe has given rise to a rapidly growing number of tools, middleware, and end user applications for Linux on the mainframe.
Because Linux is UNIX-like, it is relatively easy to port software from UNIX operating systems to Linux. Increasingly, software vendors are providing Linux versions of their commercial UNIX applications.
The effort for porting an application from another Linux platform to Linux on the mainframe is generally minor, because Linux is designed to be platform-independent. For a given level, the Linux kernel has almost the identical capabilities and characteristics across all its architectural implementations. The small amount of ...