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14 November 2023

Attendees

Agenda

Daniel would like to see more distros involved/discussing path toward dracut changes outlined in https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/2534
The public openSUSE Build Service (OBS) resources for s390x uses part of a mainframe that SUSE has, provided by IBM, but resources have been reduced build node-wise, and is causing delays in builds.

The IBM LinuxONE Open Source Cloud may be able to help here, but they need deeper resources than just VMs, and are requesting access to an LPAR.
Configuration and performance concerns were also discussed, and more data is needed to see why there is some slowness, this will be followed up by the openSUSE team with contacts in IBM (Elizabeth to collect Sarah, Ulrich, and Berthold on an email thread to see who else needs to be engaged with this evaluation).

Note: Kubernetes is using OBS for release management https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/10/10/cri-o-community-package-infrastructure/

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AlmaLinux 9 beta came out with s390x support: https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-9-beta-now-available/
Fedora 36 release is on 10 May
openSUSE conference coming up in Nürnberg, Germany and Sarah is giving her Collaboration instead of Competition talk: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3700
Sarah launched a discussion about additional hardware possibilities, beyond what RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu have proposed and are collaborating with IBM on, community input from what the distros are seeing

If the hardware has $x feature, it may be interesting to see $y business cases realized
Do new HMCs have optical drives for DVD-based installs? Interesting question for installation / maintenance from the distros.

Remote desktop xrdp client isn’t building on openSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems/xrdp/standard/s390x (the server is fine, which is the more common use case)

Ulrich checked - upstream claims to support it, a patch went in in March 2021
FYI Fedora patch: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xrdp/blob/rawhide/f/xrdp-0.9.16-arch.patch

Open Mainframe Project CFP: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-mainframe-summit/program/cfp/

Sarah and Lyz will work together on a proposal about the WG and progress being made, due June 10
If accepted, Lyz will present in person in Philadelphia

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