Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE use the s390x hardware architecture to run various Linux distributions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Ubuntu. Tens of thousands of software packages are tested and distributed through these projects, and various community distributions.
But for some applications, a team at IBM pays special attention to make sure they compile and run as expected (or better!). This work is often done as a collaboration between the open source projects themselves and the team at IBM. This effort is an on-going collaboration with every release of the software needing to be validated.
Welcome to our monthly report!
For the month of February 2025, the team worked to validate recent versions of the following:
- Ansible
- Apache Camel
- Apache HTTP Server
- Apache Storm
- Apache Spark
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache Zeppelin
- Bazel
- Beats
- Cruise Control
- Elasticsearch
- etcd
- Falco
- Grafana
- HAProxy
- Jenkins
- Kind
- Logstash
- MongoDB Driver - C
- MySQL 8.x
- MySQL 8.0.x
- MySQL 9.x
- Netty-tcnative
- Neo4j
- NGINX Ingress Controller
- OPA
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- RabbitMQ
- Ruby
- TensorFlow
- TensorFlow Transform
- TensorFlow Serving
- Terraform
- WildFly
- Zabbix Agent
- Zabbix Server
The full list of validated software to date is available here: https://www.ibm.com/community/z/open-source-software/
What's happening elsewhere in the open source world? Thousands of open source projects that have independently added s390x to their build pipelines and produce binaries and containers, and this month we want to highlight the addition of s390x to the CI of go-mysql, with platform support now documented here). The fastfetch project also added s390x to their CI and began releasing binaries with their v2.36.0 release.
Looking for open source software that's not maintained by this team? Visit the Open Mainframe Project Software Discovery Tool to search for what you're looking for across a number Linux distributions.
Are you a developer for an open source project interested in seeing your application made available to users on Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE? Your first stop should be the IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud where you can sign up for a free virtual machine for 120 days where you can see how your application runs, and discover for yourself what you may need to change to get it to run well on Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE.
If you wish to have permanent virtual machines for development, testing, or to add to your CI system, you can fill out this form to apply for resources for your project.