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I run Hercules on many of my machines at home. I am even helping the cause to enable Hercules to run the Linux for zSeries (zLinux) kernel (see here).

This is a picture of most of my Hercules PCs, with the P/390 (also running Linux/390) in shot. The monitor and keyboard at top-right belong to the P/390, which itself is bottom-right. It's running SuSE Enterprise Linux for S/390 7.0 (the OS/2 host is Warp Server for e-business).
At the far-bottom-left corner is my main Linux server; monitor/keyboard for it is centre-left. It is a dual PIII-450 with 64MB RAM (a little under-equipped for Hercules), running Red Hat Linux 6.2 with kernel and package updates. At the time of the photo, Hercules was IPLed with SuSE Linux for S/390 6.4 (pre-release 2).
Centre-right is my IBM ThinkPad i-Series, running Linux for this photo (it usually runs Windows 98). It has a Celeron-366 processor and 64MB RAM. For the photo, it was running MVT 21.8F under Hercules.

Centre field, is the piece de resistance. Sony VAIO PCG-C1VM, with 600MHz Transmeta Crusoe processor and 128MB RAM, running Windows ME. Here's a close-up:

In the photo, the VAIO is running MVT 21.8F. The Hercules window is on the left, partially obscured by the master console window.
The keen-of-eye will notice that the VAIO is actually attached to my LAN. I forgot to disconnect it before taking the photo. I assure you the photo is genuine -- the smallest hardware ever to run MVT!