8 August 2022

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Agenda:

Open Mainframe Summit September 21-22
- Lyz and Sarah presenting on the WG: https://oms2022.sched.com/event/157eY?iframe=no

openJDK 17 is integrated with openSUSE, but working to get Open J9 into releases (currently just in tumbleweed, not leap), who will support it now that Open J9 is open source (not a technical issue)? Ulrich will talk to Tomas.
Mentioned at a previous meeting, and fixed! https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8288128

Rocky Linux 9 is out, had some fixes to do but it’s going well
Debian is moving along, postgres workaround fix has been explored workaround created for openSUSE, but a real fix for llvm is in the works (hopefully for llvm 16)
Fedora 37 is getting ready, no major changes to the toolchain so things are going well
SLES sp5 in the works, Rancher on zSystems release happened too
openSUSE zSystems folks will be at the Open Source Day at Grace Hopper in September!

13 June 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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