10 Januar 2023

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Excused:

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Interviews:
- Panel discussion video available: Video Interview - Panel Discussion
- Interview with Elizabeth and Sarah at Open Mainframe Summit: Interview at Open Mainframe Summit
Sarah is accepted for a presentation in the distributions dev room at FOSDEM on Sunday, 5 February 2023, at 11:00 (Hybrid Conference).
qore is available for s390x again
libcds/firebird: First time, that the build for s390x is successfully, but x86 not (there was a change in package dependencies): firebird build for openSUSE
x server (x application to x server): Changes required
- It has to be handled on distro side instead of x86 (virtual graphic card)
- perhaps long term solution with support for virtual gpu (Ulrich will ask)
frame pointer option enabling (already forwarded and approved with some changes)
- performance improvement with profiling for everyone
- Fedora document
- Mailing list discussion 1
- Mailing list discussion 2
Debian has got a new s390x Contributor

15 November 2022

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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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