![]() ![]() Without further ado, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announces that AlmaLinux 8.6 for s390x has finally arrived! The release is waiting for you on the nearest mirror. Announcing AlmaLinux 8.6 for IBM Z Architecture While a more detailed write up of the whole process is forthcoming, suffice it to say, this was quite an adventure which took months in order to work out the dependency chain, build all the required dependencies, build an initial base build as a root and then rebuild all the packages for Z architecture. Kurt, Neale and crew are truly incredible mavens when it comes to anything mainframe related and we’re so glad to have them as part of our community.ĬentOS 8 is built upon Fedora 28 so Kurt and Neale worked together with the by now world famous Andrew Lukoshko, our OS Architect, and AlmaLinux community member Eduard Abdullin to bootstrap the build from Fedora sources and packages. Eventually we got linked up and decided to work on supporting Z together for a long time under the AlmaLinux OS umbrella. They previously used to build a very popular Linux for Z called ClefOS but after the announcement of CentOS Stream they were looking for a direction forward. In the middle of last year, Sine Nomine joined the AlmaLinux Foundation as member. So, we thought to ourselves, instead of re-building from upstream, let’s try and build a distro that doesn’t yet exist! How We Did it This is what motivated us to release projects like ELevate which let you migrate from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice. But, we like to challenge ourselves, so that we can learn and grow while at the same time bringing goodness to the community. It’s pretty easy to consume upstream and bake a distro and we’ve gotten pretty good at that, in fact we always were. While the CentOS project built releases for a few architectures, CentOS 8 was never built for IBM Z! Why We Did it ![]() In general, we build an AlmaLinux release by consuming upstream sources from the CentOS git and pulling those into our AlmaLinux Git Server which are then built using by the AlmaLinux Build System. The thing is, this release should not exist! Let’s explain. Today we have an interesting story to share about a new release - AlmaLinux 8.6 for s390x. Hello, IBM Z fans and Linux world at large. ![]()
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