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Happy #Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release day!

As they have for years, the release includes #IBMZ & #LinuxONE (s390x) with updates to s390-tools, support for new hardware ✨ and so much more.

Read the full release announcement over on the Ubuntu on Big Iron blog: ubuntu-on-big-iron.blogspot.co

ubuntu-on-big-iron.blogspot.comUbuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is released! Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is released! The latest Ubuntu 25.04 (April-) release was just made available minutes ago! It's again time to...

Last summer I had the opportunity to attend Hot Chips where I saw the announcement of the IBM Telum II and IBM Spyre Accelerator, both of which bring piles of innovation to #IBMZ around #AI 👏

In October I actually got to hold an IBM Telum II wafer 😍

What's next? IBM Z Day Special Edition is coming up on April 8th, and there's an AI & Data track where we can learn more about how to use this fancy new hardware! 🎉

The event is free and virtual, registration at: ibm.biz/ibmzday2025-se

IBM is building up a new #IBM development location in #Waterford #Ireland . The focus of the team will be industrial research related to the low level #Linux kernel and #firmware development for the #ibmz .
This will be a unique opportunity to shape for the Linux #opensource Ecosystem!
Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open-Source and eager to become part of an worldwide #development community?

ibmglobal.avature.net/en_US/ca

IBMLinux Kernel OS Developer - Waterford Office

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In February 2025 validation was maintained for over 3 dozen projects, including the #Apache HTTP server, #Bazel and #etcd

Plus, community CI and docs were added to go-mysql, and fastfetch added CI & began releasing binaries with v2.36.0!

Full report + how your project can apply for a s390x VM: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: February 2025

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In January 2025 validation was maintained for over 2 dozen projects, including #Apache Camel, Beats, and #noble-hashes

Plus, community CI added for #lttng & StreamsHub Console for Apache #Kafka and CI & binaries for the Dynatrace distribution of the #OpenTelemetry Collector

Full report + how your project can apply for a s390x VM: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: January 2025

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In December 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including @ApacheKafka
#HAProxy #SonarQube

We also saw community CI added for the Zxilly go-site-analyzer, and the Zig programming language, along with CI & binaries for ruri and scie-jump

Full report + how to apply for your own s390x VM for your project: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: December 2024

It’s estimated that there are 10,000 mainframes in use today. They’re used almost exclusively by the largest companies in the world, including two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, 45 of the world’s top 50 banks, eight of the top 10 insurers, seven of the top 10 global retailers, and eight of the top 10 telecommunications companies. And most of those mainframes come from IBM.

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Ars Technica · The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survivesBy Ars Contributors
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@mavu

AI [probably referring to a LLM] is not trained by professionals or a single end user, because it requires such huge amounts of input training data...

You are correct and you are incorrect.

From scratch finding data for pattern matching is tough and requires high performance engines, trade-offs, and money. But we stand on the backs of giants.

There are trained ethical LLMs, certified to be so and deep pockets to back the assertion and the necessary curation. They are not necessarily free. From those seeds AIs can be built to do the things of which I speak.

If IBM can do it (and they do; having gone to the training and hard sell, I know), Apple Intelligence could be built and use Apple engines as infrastructure. Big Blue's giant Z mainframes, which are blades in pretty artwork boxed server racks, are performant due to their custom chips, virtual system management, tuned I/O structure, and multitasking software. Apple chips are performant, custom, and cheaper for the end user. Apple Intelligence is likely Apple's WatsonX App-Killer that'll make the difference, and most certainly runs on Apple hardware increasingly running on renewables.

My point isn't so much building LLMs from scratch, but applications built on a platform and then trained from private user data and via user curation. If I implied otherwise, I wasn't clear. Sorry.

I assume Apple's LLMs are ethical. I also assume that Apple is exposing AI APIs for use by developers.

#BoostingIsSharing

#LLM #Ibmz #AI #genAI #ethics #watsonx #ibm #Apple #intelligence #Writer #Author #Fiction #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #Programmer #Program #Application #Code #Coding

Cc: @vextaur

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In November 2024 validation was maintained for over 35 projects, including #MySQL, #PHP, & #RabbitMQ

We also saw community CI added for SuperNOVAs, and CI with binaries for PolyNode & PocketBase

Full report + how to apply for your own s390x VM for your project: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: November 2024

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In October 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #Apache #CloudStack, #Alfresco, & #Calico

We also saw community CI added and binaries released for helm-unittest & tsduck, and CI support in the WebAssembly Binary Toolkit (wabt).

Full report + how to get your own s390x VM for your project: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: October 2024

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In September of 2024 validation was maintained for over 40 projects, including #Antlr, #ApacheZeppelin & #TensorFlow

In the broader community, we saw s390x support added for memtrace, a Valgrind tool for tracing memory accesses (ci) & Chainsaw (ci, binaries) 🎉

Full report + how to get your own s390x VM for your project: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: September 2024

A big topic of the day at #IBMZDay was skills, so I'm happy to conclude my day by watching a session on "Inspire and Empower the Next Generation of IBM Z"

And it's worth mentioning a bunch of the resources out there in the Employer Resource Hub at ibm.biz/ztalent & the IBM Z Mainframe Skills Depot ibm.com/z/resources/mainframe- #skills #training #mainframe #IBMZ

IBM Z and LinuxONE CommunityEmployer Resource Hub | IBM Z and LinuxONE CommunityInspire, connect, train, and grow IBM Z Skills.
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Here we go! "Everything as Code - Sogei's Modernization Journey" at #IBMZDay #Linux

Given my background, I am partial to these kinds of talks. They describe their usage of the OpenStack-compatible IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center, and how it's helped them to build an infrastructure where they define images, services, and everything as code. It looks incredibly similar to the distributed systems I used to work on, but with the inclusion of #IBMZ in their hybrid infra 👍

ibm.biz/ibmzday-2024

Join us for IBM Z Day 2024, showcasing our next generation of innovation.No Cost | IBM | Conference - IBM Z Day 2024#ibmzday | October 1, 2024 | Virtual Conference | Register Now
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#ChatOps has come a long way since we had notifications in IRC 😅

In "Leveraging an Intelligent Chatbot for IBM Z Operations at Dutch Tax Office" at #IBMZDay they're demonstrating (on desktop and mobile!) how use of #IBMZ ChatOps has helped new employees get up to speed more quickly as they integrate tons of features into their ChatOps environment (application status, restarts, etc), which simplifies basic (and some more complicated!) interaction with the #mainframe

ibm.biz/ibmzday-2024

Join us for IBM Z Day 2024, showcasing our next generation of innovation.No Cost | IBM | Conference - IBM Z Day 2024#ibmzday | October 1, 2024 | Virtual Conference | Register Now

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In August of 2024 validation was maintained for over two dozen projects, including #Apache #ActiveMQ, #Grafana, and #Jenkins

In the broader community, we saw s390x support added for R-hub containers (ci, containers), praat (ci, binaries), & Elvish (ci) 🎉

Full report (and how your OSS community can get a VM too!): community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: August 2024

The #s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In July of 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #Logstash, the #R programming language & #zabbix

In the community, the bootc and Kueue projects both added s390x support to their respective CI systems 🎉

Full report: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: July 2024

The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In June 2024 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #CockroachDB #doxygen & #HashiCorp's #Terraform

Also, the AI/ML team at #IBM did initial work focused on s390x compatibility for Mage AI & the Triton Inference Server received compatibility fixes for big endian platforms.

Full report at: community.ibm.com/community/us

community.ibm.com · Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report: June 2024