[CentOS-devel] CentOS for IBM Mainframes.

2018-02-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at 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.


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