Hi all,
I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option for LinuxONE?
Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Javier Romero
On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:
Hi all,
I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option for LinuxONE?
Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Javier Romero
Hi Javier,
That would probably be for the AltArch-SIG , already building CentOS 7 for - IBM Power 8 (ppc64, ppc64le) - aarch64 (aka ARMv8 , 64bits) - armhfp (aka ARMv7 , 32bits) - i686
But the s390 question was raised already in the past, but finding : - people willing to bootstrap the rebuild - on dedicated hardware donated to the project (yeah, difficult part) is a "challenge" :)
2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:
On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:
Hi all,
I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option for LinuxONE?
Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Javier Romero
Hi Javier,
That would probably be for the AltArch-SIG , already building CentOS 7 for
- IBM Power 8 (ppc64, ppc64le)
- aarch64 (aka ARMv8 , 64bits)
- armhfp (aka ARMv7 , 32bits)
- i686
But the s390 question was raised already in the past, but finding :
- people willing to bootstrap the rebuild
Well, I'm very interested on contributing with this.
- on dedicated hardware donated to the project (yeah, difficult part)
is a "challenge" :)
Is there any chance that IBM donate this hardware for the CentOS project? Think that will be also useful for that company to have another Linux distro running on their Z Systems.
-- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab
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On 20 February 2018 at 11:42, Javier Romero xavinux@gmail.com wrote:
2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:
On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:
Hi all,
I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option for LinuxONE?
Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Javier Romero
Hi Javier,
That would probably be for the AltArch-SIG , already building CentOS 7 for
- IBM Power 8 (ppc64, ppc64le)
- aarch64 (aka ARMv8 , 64bits)
- armhfp (aka ARMv7 , 32bits)
- i686
But the s390 question was raised already in the past, but finding :
- people willing to bootstrap the rebuild
Well, I'm very interested on contributing with this.
- on dedicated hardware donated to the project (yeah, difficult part)
is a "challenge" :)
Is there any chance that IBM donate this hardware for the CentOS project? Think that will be also useful for that company to have another Linux distro running on their Z Systems.
I can only say from the Fedora side, that it is very complicated. IBM does not donate mainframes in the same way they may donate PPC hardware to a site. Where-ever the hardware is requires dedicated resources (water cooling, extra power conditioning) and contracts with IBM. The contracts seemed to be the longest time and I don't know what it entailed as it is lawyer stuff. There was just a long time of "we can't" then "oh we can but you will need to use this one system we have in a far away location using these methods".
Stephen,
Seems that is not so easy to get S390x hardware as PPC Servers.
Thank you very much for your answer.
Regards,
Javier Romero
2018-02-20 15:01 GMT-03:00 Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com:
On 20 February 2018 at 11:42, Javier Romero xavinux@gmail.com wrote:
2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org:
On 20/02/18 17:14, Javier Romero wrote:
Hi all,
I see that IBM LinuxONE, provides a Z Mainframe running with Linux Red Hat, SUSE OR Ubuntu Server distros.
Do you think that could also be useful for CentOS to be another option for LinuxONE?
Maybe a a CentOS Mainframe SIG can be created to work on this.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Javier Romero
Hi Javier,
That would probably be for the AltArch-SIG , already building CentOS 7 for
- IBM Power 8 (ppc64, ppc64le)
- aarch64 (aka ARMv8 , 64bits)
- armhfp (aka ARMv7 , 32bits)
- i686
But the s390 question was raised already in the past, but finding :
- people willing to bootstrap the rebuild
Well, I'm very interested on contributing with this.
- on dedicated hardware donated to the project (yeah, difficult part)
is a "challenge" :)
Is there any chance that IBM donate this hardware for the CentOS project? Think that will be also useful for that company to have another Linux distro running on their Z Systems.
I can only say from the Fedora side, that it is very complicated. IBM does not donate mainframes in the same way they may donate PPC hardware to a site. Where-ever the hardware is requires dedicated resources (water cooling, extra power conditioning) and contracts with IBM. The contracts seemed to be the longest time and I don't know what it entailed as it is lawyer stuff. There was just a long time of "we can't" then "oh we can but you will need to use this one system we have in a far away location using these methods".
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