IBM is building up a new #IBM development location in #Waterford #Ireland . The focus of the team will be industrial research related to the low level #Linux kernel and #firmware development for the #ibmz .
This will be a unique opportunity to shape for the Linux #opensource Ecosystem!
Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open-Source and eager to become part of an worldwide #development community?

https://ibmglobal.avature.net/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=20521

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In February 2025 validation was maintained for over 3 dozen projects, including the #Apache HTTP server, #Bazel and #etcd

Plus, community CI and docs were added to go-mysql, and fastfetch added CI & began releasing binaries with v2.36.0!

Full report + how your project can apply for a s390x VM: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2025/03/18/linuxone-open-source-report-february-2025

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In January 2025 validation was maintained for over 2 dozen projects, including #Apache Camel, Beats, and #noble-hashes

Plus, community CI added for #lttng & StreamsHub Console for Apache #Kafka and CI & binaries for the Dynatrace distribution of the #OpenTelemetry Collector

Full report + how your project can apply for a s390x VM: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2025/02/27/linuxone-open-source-report-january-2025

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In December 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including @ApacheKafka
#HAProxy #SonarQube

We also saw community CI added for the Zxilly go-site-analyzer, and the Zig programming language, along with CI & binaries for ruri and scie-jump

Full report + how to apply for your own s390x VM for your project: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2025/02/07/linuxone-open-source-report-december-2024

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In November 2024 validation was maintained for over 35 projects, including #MySQL, #PHP, & #RabbitMQ

We also saw community CI added for SuperNOVAs, and CI with binaries for PolyNode & PocketBase

Full report + how to apply for your own s390x VM for your project: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/12/23/linuxone-open-source-report-november-2024

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In October 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #Apache #CloudStack, #Alfresco, & #Calico

We also saw community CI added and binaries released for helm-unittest & tsduck, and CI support in the WebAssembly Binary Toolkit (wabt).

Full report + how to get your own s390x VM for your project: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/11/20/linuxone-open-source-report-october-2024

Future of #BigIron: #TelumII and #Spyre
#IBM’s big #mainframe props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing.
#Telum became centerpiece of 4th gen #LinuxOne – a series of #Linux systems purely for z architecture. Another big focus, for #z15 and LinuxOne, was built-in #AI engine with every chip, allowing focused models to run alongside critical workloads.
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/the-future-of-big-iron-telum-ii-and

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In September of 2024 validation was maintained for over 40 projects, including #Antlr, #ApacheZeppelin & #TensorFlow

In the broader community, we saw s390x support added for memtrace, a Valgrind tool for tracing memory accesses (ci) & Chainsaw (ci, binaries)

Full report + how to get your own s390x VM for your project: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/10/29/linuxone-open-source-report-september-2024

Happy #Ubuntu release day!

As always, this also includes the release of Ubuntu 24.10 for the #IBMZ & #LinuxONE mainframe architecture, and the great Frank Heimes has produced a blog post that includes all the s390x-specific goodies in this release: https://ubuntu-on-big-iron.blogspot.com/2024/10/ubuntu-24.10.html

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In August of 2024 validation was maintained for over two dozen projects, including #Apache #ActiveMQ, #Grafana, and #Jenkins

In the broader community, we saw s390x support added for R-hub containers (ci, containers), praat (ci, binaries), & Elvish (ci)

Full report (and how your OSS community can get a VM too!): https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/09/18/linuxone-open-source-report-august-2024

The #s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In July of 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #Logstash, the #R programming language & #zabbix

In the community, the bootc and Kueue projects both added s390x support to their respective CI systems

Full report: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/08/23/linuxone-open-source-report-july-2024

The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In June 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #CockroachDB #doxygen & #HashiCorp's #Terraform

Also, the AI/ML team at #IBM did initial work focused on s390x compatibility for Mage AI & the Triton Inference Server received compatibility fixes for big endian platforms.

Full report at: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/07/19/linuxone-open-source-report-june-2024

"The availability of LLD on all architectures supported by Fedora removes one of the barriers that caused Fedora to have fewer packages available on s390x. It helps to reduce the maintenance burden by allowing packages to use the same linker on all architectures."

I've been watching this work unfold from the sidelines for some time, congratulations to the team for landing it all!

"Adding support for s390x in LLD, the LLVM linker" https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/06/18/adding-support-s390x-lld-llvm-linker #s390x #IBMZ #LinuxONE

The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ (mainframes)

In May 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #Python, #Sysdig, & the #MongoDB Driver for #C & #PHP

Report: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/06/07/linuxone-open-source-report-may-2024 #LinuxONE

The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ.

In April 2024 validation was maintained for over two dozen projects, including: #Cassandra #cAdvisor & #Ruby

Full report: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/05/14/linuxone-open-source-report-april-2024 #LinuxONE

We were also happy to see some s390x builds come out of the nfpm project (ci, binaries), Docker Rust containers being built after being added to CI, and vmtest 0.11.0 start releasing binaries

Today marks 5 years with IBM!

On my first day I got to see the IBM z14 plexi and a few weeks ago I got to check out the test facility to see a whole bunch of the latest IBM z16s.

But I also got to build an OSPO during a pandemic, as you do: https://princessleia.com/journal/2024/04/5-years-at-ibm/

Yesterday, the @ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) release came out!

As has been the case since 2016, IBM Z and #LinuxONE (s390x) support was included in this release.

Our #mainframe guru at Canonical, Frank Heimes, also put together a blog post with the s390x-details outlined on the Ubuntu on Big Iron blog: https://ubuntu-on-big-iron.blogspot.com/2024/04/ubuntu-server-24.04-lts.html

As has been the case since @fedora 15, the milestone release of Fedora 40 has s390x support

I've shared details and links to where you can find download information for various architectures here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/04/23/fedora-40-released-for-ibm-z-linuxone #IBMZ #LinuxONE

Just gave my #TXLF talk, "Why (and how) would you run Linux on the Mainframe?"

Slides (PDF): https://princessleia.com/presentations/2024/Why_and_how_would_you_run_Linux_on_the_Mainframe_-_TXLF_2024.pdf #mainframe #IBMZ #LinuxONE

On Tuesday, March 19th I'm excited to join Steve Perva, Niall Ashley, Ipek Dedekoy & Joe Winchester to talk about the benefits of open source on the #mainframe (for your org AND you!) on the New to #IBMZ Technical Series https://ibm.biz/AnsibleZowe #LinuxONE #Ansible #Zowe