Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Few days ago, a new company was created: TurboHercules.

As the name implies, they package up Hercules (an IBM mainframe emulator), and provide support for it. They are targetting the platform as a disaster recovery solution.

It shouldn’t directly affect the open source project in a negative way (just like Red Hat cannot prevent people from continuing their work on the Linux Kernel). At the same time, it’ll change the way people look at Hercules.

I finally managed to find few minutes (well, about 2.5 hours) to write down and test my first howto. It is about…*drumroll*…Installing Debian under Hercules.

For those of you who don’t know, Hercules is an emulator for the System/360, 370, 390, and zSeries IBM mainframes.

Have fun, and let me know if you have any suggestions how I could improve the howto.