- openSUSE Z Systems

Z Training for the community (Tuesday, 14th May 2024)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 13 May '24

13 May '24

Hello together, as mentioned 2 weeks ago during the Z introduction training by IBM, we will go deeper into the Z architecture tomorrow at 19:00. If you are interested for a deeper technical knowledge (what can be done based on our existing "z15" hardware), you should join. IBMers are not allowed to teach in such details the community. Therefore, I will do it for our own (based on provided slides in the past and some university lecture material). In the first step, we will go through the different existing components[0]. Afterwards, we will go deeper into the processor architecture and the memory management. Are you interested for the next learning sessions? Then join us next Tuesday at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time)/ 18:00 (Nigeria) / 14:00 (Brazil)! Our meeting/training room: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Best regards, Sarah [0] https://www.ibm.com/training/pdfs/The_New_IBM_z15_A-technical_review_of_the…

1 0

Z Training by IBM for the community (Tuesday, 30th April 2024)
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hello together, are you a Package Maintainer or in general Linux Developer/Tester interested what is behind the architecture s390x or do you want to refresh your knowledge about mainframes? I am happy to announce, that I have received the offer by PJ Catalano at the IBM Z Symposium to provide a technical mainframe introduction with the direction of a deeper knowledge for the Z architecture during our openSUSE zSystems Knowledge Sharing Session, Tuesday, the 30th April 2024 at 19:00 (German time). PJ is Senior Technical Staff Member and Test Architect (maintaining and testing 200 mainframes in an IBM laboratory in the USA) at IBM. We know us from conferences (Open Mainframe Project and IBM conferences) and he wants to support expanding the mainframe knowledge within the Linux community. This training is free for all. You can forward also this invitation to other Members within the Linux community (who are looking for such trainings). Are you interested for the next learning sessions? Then join us next Tuesday at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time)/ 18:00 (Nigeria) / 14:00 (Brazil)! Our meeting/training room: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Best regards, Sarah P.S. The training next week is also usable for real Mainframe newbies. We will follow with deeper technical introductions 2 weeks later.

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 15th April 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 15th April 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Happy Eastern! We have received a new openSUSE Tumbleweed release as an Easter present. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) SUSE internal kernel based memory issue 3) old memory bug fixed by SUSE: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 4) ansible working again on openSUSE 5) Review of "Upgrade SLES to openSUSE" wiki page - Are other Linux distributions required there? 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 2nd April 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 2nd April 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Happy Eastern! We have received a new openSUSE Tumbleweed release as an Easter present. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) SUSE internal kernel based memory issue 3) old memory bug resolved: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 4) new Tumbleweed release 5) Review of other affected packages (memory related) 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 18th March 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 18th March 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Sorry, that I did not attend the last session because of exams. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) GPG key problem in opensuse-build-keys resolved 3) old memory bug from 2021 ongoing again: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 -> After apllying the fix, builds are slower not submitted) 4) s390x build status: compilers require a lot of time 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 6th March 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 06th March 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. Sorry, that I did not attend the last session because of exams. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status (running mainframes ;)) 3) GPG key problems for s390x: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/issues/1334 4) old memory bug from 2021 ongoing again: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101523 5) openQA status 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 5th February 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hello together, Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 05th February 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) mainframe status 3) openQA status 6) Packaging topics 7) Open tasks and questions 8) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 30th January 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Hello together, Jitsy does not work at the moment. We are switching the Jitsi server. The authentitcation works with the user gast and the date 30.01.2024. I have to tell some good news from the Linux Distributions Working Group and my experience at the IBM TechXChange in Barcelona. Therefore, we hold the meeting of last week this week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 30th January 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: conference.ztl.team/cb Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Performance optimization 3) openQA status 4) Z Assembler Training material 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting Tuesday - 30th January 2024
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hello together, I have to tell some good news from the Linux Distributions Working Group and my experience at the IBM TechXChange in Barcelona. Therefore, we hold the meeting of last week this week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 30th January 2024, is the next of our training/meeting sessions. We will meet us at 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time) on our openSUSE Jitsy: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x Topics for this session: 1) Know each other (networking) 2) Performance optimization 3) openQA status 4) Z Assembler Training material 5) Packaging topics 6) Open tasks and questions 7) Q&A I expect, that we will need 1.5 hours. I am looking forward to see you all. :-) Best regards, Sarah

1 0

openSUSE zSystems Knowlege Sharing Session / meeting can not happen today
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Hello together, I have to say that I am at the IBM TechXChange in Barcelona and I have got a dinner with IBM today in parallel to our openSUSE meeting. Therefore I have to forward our meeting to next week. Sorry for such circumstances. Best regards, Sarah

1 0