Elizabeth K. Joseph
The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ. In January 2024 validation was maintained for nearly 40 projects, including: #ApacheSolr #doxygen & #rethinkdb

Full report: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2024/02/13/linuxone-open-source-report-january-2024 #LinuxONE #mainframe #OpenSource
Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: January 2024

Feb 13, 2024 at 4:57pmWeb
Show threadElizabeth K. JosephFeb 13, 2024
In late December and early January it was great to see s390x containers start being built for plid-pdf-verifier and s390x binaries released for the pillow-jpegxl-plugin project 👏 #IBMZ #LinuxONE #mainframe
Show threadColin Cogle 🔵Feb 14, 2024
@pleia2 The #Debian and #Ubuntu teams still cross-compile thousands of things for s390x automatically, including one of my little open-source projects. Like the article says, I had a couple of architecture-related bugs, too.
Show threadElizabeth K. JosephFeb 14, 2024

@colincogle Indeed they do! I work very closely with them, along with Fedora, openSUSE, Rocky Linux and others via the Open Mainframe Project Linux Distributions Working Group. We also maintain the Software Discovery Tool that provides a searchable listing of the hundreds of thousands of packages across distros: https://sdt.openmainframeproject.org/sdt/

The post I shared is very specific to a porting team at IBM, but maybe it's worth expanding the post to talk about other work that's happening 🤔

Software Discovery Tool

Show threadColin Cogle 🔵Feb 14, 2024
@pleia2 As long as we don’t fall into an architecture monoculture, it’s all good. The automated testing saves me a lot of time spinning up QEMU instances. People might be switching away from C, but it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.