Market Outlook
In their 2005 "hype" report, IT industry analyst firm Gartner cited Linux on System z as arguably the leading driver of Linux's adoption among businesses and governments. The expansion of Linux to the mainframe market has given Linux increased market credibility.
IBM announced in May 2006, that over 1,700 customers run Linux on their mainframes — which is a considerable number in the mainframe market.
IBM currently supports two Linux distributions, Red Hat and SUSE. Other notable Linux on System z distributions are Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS and Fedora. The Linux kernel architecture designation is "s390" for 31-bit kernels and "s390x" for 64-bit kernels.
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