Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Announcements for upcoming meetings with joining information and precise time are sent to the mailing list and tracked on the team calendar.
13 August 2024
Attendees:
- Elizabeth K. Joseph (IBM)
- Sarah Julia Kriesh (openSUSE)
- Daniel Horak (Fedora)
- Larry Morris (Canonical)
Agenda:
- IBM TechXchange: Collaboration of Linux Distributions on the Mainframe - A Benefit for you & all Linux Distributions [2543] https://reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/techxchange24/sessioncatalog/page/sessioncatalog?search=%22Sarah%20Julia%20Kriesch%22
- openSUSE has identified a bug "race in sysfs during setup of hvc with kernel-source 6.10.2-1.1" which was taken upstream: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228425
- Sarah has a contact who is interested in contributing to Fedora on s390x, and they’re looking for development resources now that their IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud entitlement has expired. Sarah also suggested getting Fedora on the open source cloud (like Debian), Lyz will follow-up with the team at IBM about feasibility.
Sarah runs regular s390x training for openSUSE that she publishes to the openSUSE mailing list, and Lyz invited her to share them with the broader WG
9 July 2024
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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
- Other upcoming events
- June 2-4: openSUSE conference (Sarah is speaking, see above)
- June 16-18: VM Workshop is in June (CFP already closed)
- August 21-26: SHARE in August (CFP already closed)
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