11 April 2023

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Agenda:

Sarah submitted a talk to openSUSE conf and confirmed that the issue in her latest mail to the list has been resolved
Neil of Rocky Linux said some s390x builds are slow/fail but can be nudged along, will follow-up with Lyz soon about trying a KVM guest in the LinuxONE open source cloud environment
Vignesh provided update on his progress with Redpanda (see mailing list: https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/message/106)

On the topic of OpenMPI Sarah shared: https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems/arpack-ng:openmpi1/standard/s390x
Vignesh mentioned: https://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainerStable from Fedora
Lyz and Dipak to sync up about Debian CI needs

14 February 2023

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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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