z14 ZR1 / LinuxONE Rockhopper II
IBM has announced the new z14 ZR1 / LinuxONE Rockhopper II on April 10, 2018. The key new feature for me of this box is the form factor. Instead of the decades old 24″ rack a standard 19″ rack is … Read the rest
zSystems
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS available for Linux on Z and LinuxONE
On April 27th 2018 Canonical announced the second version of Ubuntu LTS for Linux on Z and LinuxONE.
Link collection and other useful information:
- Canonical System Z specific blog
- Ubuntu 18.04 release notes
- Ubuntu 18.04 installation guide
- Ubuntu Server Certifications
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 3 (SLES 12 SP3) released
On September 7th 2017 eleven months after the last service pack SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution.
The kernel level for 12.3 is kernel-4.4.73-5.1. So the major kernel level stayed the same, which allowed … Read the rest
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 (SLES 12 SP2) released
On November 8th 2016 eleven months after the last service pack SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution. SUSE also has a blog post with some more details.
The
kernel level for 12.2 is kernel-4.4.21-69.1. … Read the rest
New whitepaper “Hardware cryptographic support of IBM z Systems for OpenSSH in RHEL 7.2 and SLES 12 SP1”
There is a new whitepaper on TechDocs, that describes the HowTo setup the Linux distributions RHEL 7.2 and SLES 12 SP1, so that OpenSSH (and all workloads using this) really benefit from the hardware encryption delivered with System z.
One … Read the rest
Fedora 24 for IBM z Systems and Linux ONE released
The new Fedora 24
for z Systems / s390x / LinuxONE was released 6/21/2016 together with the Intel version. Thanks to the Fedora
team for closing the time gap between the architectures! The kernel level is kernel-4.5.5-300.
As usual the … Read the rest
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS available for LinuxONE and z Systems
Today Canonical announced the availability of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS including full support for z Systems and LinuxONE. Welcome to the platform!
Besides bringing tons of packages there is a fundamental change in pricing. It’s no longer IFL based but rather … Read the rest
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1 (SLES 12 SP1) released
On December 22nd just in time for Christmas SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution.
The
kernel level for 12.1 is kernel-3.12.49-11.1. As one of the top features this distribution is the first one, which … Read the rest
Fedora 23 for IBM z Systems released
The new Fedora 23 for z Systems / s390x was released 11/10/2015. Thanks to the Fedora team for making this available! The kernel level is kernel-4.2.3-300.
As usual the download
is available from the Fedoraproject site and the respective mirrors … Read the rest