Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Community Blog

Linux in the IBM Z ecosystem

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted 24 days ago
The IBM Z ecosystem contains multiple operating systems, including IBM z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, and z/VM. So where does Linux fit in? First, let's talk about the terms surrounding Linux on the s390x ...

Get your choice of Linux distribution on IBM LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted 24 days ago
Which Linux distributions does LinuxONE actually run? Take your pick! You can choose from a wide range of officially supported and community-driven distributions. When you first learn about IBM LinuxONE ...

Enabling monitoring for user-defined projects in IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE with Red Hat OpenShift

By Jitendra Singh posted Fri January 19, 2024
Enabling m onitoring for u ser-defined p rojects in IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE with Red Hat OpenShift Authors: Jitendra Singh ( Jitendra.Singh4@ibm.com ...

New Semeru version boosts the performance of Apache Kafka on IBM Z

By Marc Beyerle posted Tue November 21, 2023
New Semeru version boosts the performance of Apache Kafka on IBM Z Authors: Marc Beyerle , Spencer Comin Sometimes, supposedly small changes can make a huge impact. In version 0.38.0 of OpenJ9, ...

Fedora 39 released for IBM Z & LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Mon November 13, 2023
On November 7, 2023, the Fedora Linux community released Fedora 39, which includes support for IBM Z and LinuxONE. Congratulations to the Fedora community on this release! Supported by the Fedora ...

Ubuntu 23.10 released for IBM Z and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Wed November 08, 2023
On October 12th, the latest Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) was released . In keeping with all Ubuntu releases since 2016, this one is supported in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE. General ...

openSUSE Leap 15.5 released!

By Sarah Julia Kriesch posted Sun June 25, 2023
We all have received a new release of openSUSE Leap 15.5 this month! It includes also, that a Java 17 for Linux is available for the architecture s390x. You can run it on openSUSE Leap 15.5, SLES ...

EDB Postgres Advanced Server on Linux on IBM zSystems - Performance Tuning Guide

By Marc Beyerle posted Tue June 13, 2023
EDB Postgres Advanced Server on Linux on IBM zSystems - Performance Tuning Guide EDB Postgres offers an integrated, Open Source based SQL relational database solution built for enterprise-scale ...

Debian 12 (bookworm") now available for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Mon June 12, 2023
On Saturday June 10, 2023 Debian 12 bookworm was released ! As with Debian releases going back many years, included in this release was a build specifically for IBM zSystems. Release notes for ...

Ubuntu 23.04 released for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Thu April 20, 2023
On April 20th, the latest Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) was released . In keeping with all Ubuntu releases since 2016, this one is supported in Linux on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. General ...

Fedora 38 released for IBM zSystems & LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Thu April 20, 2023
On April 18, 2023, the Fedora Linux community released Fedora 38, which includes support for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. Congratulations to the Fedora community on this release! Supported by ...

Inside the new IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 rack-mount

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Mon April 17, 2023
There are 18 species of penguins. The largest is the Emperor penguin, and one of the smallest is the Rockhopper. When the IBM LinuxONE was released and these names graced the large and small sizes, I thought ...

Fedora 37 released for IBM zSystems & LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Wed November 16, 2022
On October 15th, the Fedora Linux community released Fedora 37, which includes support for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. Congratulations to the Fedora community on this release! Supported by the ...

Ubuntu 22.10 released for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Mon October 24, 2022
On October 20th, the latest Ubuntu release, 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) was released, and in keeping with all Ubuntu releases since 2016, this one is supported in Linux on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. General release ...

AlmaLinux 8.6 now with support for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Fri October 14, 2022
Back in May, we learned that AlmaLinux 9 was released, with support for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE . AlmaLinux has two versions at the time of writing, 9.0 and 8.6. The zSystems and LinuxONE support ...

Rocky Linux 9 released with support for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Mon July 18, 2022
Last week Rocky Linux 9 was released ! This is the first release with a version for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE (s390x), alongside the x86_64, aarch64, and ppc64le architectures. Information about ...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 released

By Sarah Julia Kriesch posted Fri June 10, 2022
This week openSUSE Leap 15.4 has been released. That includes of course the s390x architecture! The new version does not provide only new packages, but also enhancements of the dasd formatting in Yast ...

AlmaLinux 9 released with support for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Tue May 31, 2022
Last week AlmaLinux 9 was released ! This is the first version to have a version for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE (s390x) that has full parity with upstream. Information about how to download ...

Fedora 36 released with support for IBM LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Thu May 12, 2022
On May 10th, the Fedora Linux community released Fedora 36. Congratulations to the Fedora community on this release! Supported by the Fedora community since Fedora 15 in mid-2011, the release ...

Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.10 on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE

By Adam Jollans posted Wed May 11, 2022
Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.10 on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE Expanded persistent storage options for Red Hat OpenShift applications By Andrei Constantinescu , IBM ...