10 October 2022

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The Open Mainframe Summit presentation about this WG is now up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L30SBSYL79Q
Open Mainframe Project published the following about the group: https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2022/09/22/linux-distribution-working-group
Mark asked about device interrupts for virtual card readers that were ignored by the kernel, Ulrich notified us that a patch is forthcoming: https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/topic/getting_the_kernel_to_handle/93705540
David asked whether anyone had customer/client implementations or requirements around DPDK, Daniel of Fedora said there may have been a need inside Red Hat around OpenShift, and Sarah had heard of a use case with openSUSE and vlans. David is looking to get movement on more enablement support from IBM.
Work is continuing on D language support (related to https://lists.openmainframeproject.org/g/wg-linux-distros/topic/d_language_becomes_a/93674866), a bug has been opened by Dan at https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4171
Folks from Happy Minds Lab are in the queue to receive a VM from L1CC to help with work on Debian

12 September 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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