16 May 2023

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Lyz and Dipak are working with the Debian CI folks to get a container on the build system so we can do some analysis and debugging of traffic/slowness concerns they’re seeing https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2023/05/msg00000.html
openSUSE conference coming up May 26 - 28, 2023, and Sarah is speaking on "The Mainframe: An alternative platform for openSUSE" https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC23/program/proposals/4058 which includes a section about this WG!

11 April 2023

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Video available: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/open_mainframe_project/
Good Q&A, connection with CentOS Stream
Elizabeth is looking forward to working with more in-person events this year, since that’s where we can make connections

Kernel hangs in a backported kernel, fix is in-progress

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2023/02/msg00000.html
CI system email from Paul
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2023/02/msg00007.html
- We don’t actually know where/what all the builders are, and where they live, so Elizabeth will dig into that

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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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