On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 5:30 AM Niklas Schnelle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > This might not be as niche as you might think. I'm one of the > Linux kernel maintainers for s390. Many of us do the vast majority of > their development work natively on s390 systems via SSH from Fedora > laptops. After all mainframes are pretty damn fast at compiling with > plenty of memory and dog fooding is part of quality control. And I'm > sure it's not just the teams working on the Linux kernel but also > plenty of other people working with s390 Linux machines. These s390 > machines mostly only host X servers via VNC and usually just for the > installation but they do that too. There is also a hand full of X > clients I run on s390 which are essential for my and many of my > colleagues daily workflows. The most important one is defintely > xsel/xclip to copy from the (neo-)vim/tmux I use for coding to my local > system. Some people also use x3270 via SSH X forwarding from jumphosts, > others use XEmacs. I also know essential internal tools that are run on > s390 hosts via X forwarding. Sure people using X forwarding are capable > of changing configuration defaults but if at all possible I would > suggest to rethink this, as it will create significant hassle for > anyone using their Fedora systems to SSH + X forward to s390 Linux > hosts and it definitely sees more use and thus testing than the > proposal makes it sound. >
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