I inquired a little more about IBM interest in CentOS. If the CentOS Community would like to support CentOS, IBM would like to help. It would be great if the ClefOS port for Z could be folded back into CentOS. Thanks, David On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, understood. > > Thanks for your answer. > > Regards, > > > El 20 feb. 2018 4:16 p. m., "David Edelsohn" <dje.gcc at gmail.com> escribió: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi David, >> >>> IBM can and does provide raw z/VM VMs at Marist or Syracuse for other >>> Linux distros, such as Debian..... >> >> Yes, I 've had access to an OpenStack instance on a Z13 Mainframe >> though Marist (testing Docker images on s390x arquitecture for the >> Open Mainframe Project). > > Just to clarify, I am not referring to OpenStack instances of > pre-installed Linux distros at Marist. With proper justification, IBM > sponsorship, and knowledge about z/VM, one can obtain raw z/VM > accounts. > > Thanks, David > >> >>> If there is a group of CentOS developers who want to bootstrap and >>> maintain it, the resources probably can be made available..... >> >> I'm interested in contirbuting on this. >> >> Thanks for your answer. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> 2018-02-20 15:40 GMT-03:00 David Edelsohn <dje.gcc at gmail.com>: >>>>>>>> Javier Romero writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> IBM can and does provide raw z/VM VMs at Marist or Syracuse for other >>> Linux distros, such as Debian. That is what you really need, not >>> "hardware". The discussion about donating hardware is off track. >>> >>> The Debian support is completely community driven and maintained. If >>> there is a group of CentOS developers who want to bootstrap and >>> maintain it, the resources probably can be made available. If this is >>> a request for IBM to enable CentOS on IBMz, that is an orthogonal >>> discussion about IBM resources and likely would require IBM customer >>> demand. >>> >>> Thanks, David >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS-devel mailing list >>> CentOS-devel at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >