Hello together, as already announced, our Linux on Z training series will start next Tuesday, 17th March 2026, in our openSUSE zSystems meeting channel: https://meet.opensuse.org/s390x The time will be 19:00 (German time)/ 10:00 (Pacific time)/ 18:00 (Nigeria) / 14:00 (Brazil). Everybody is welcome!
Are you fresh in the mainframe area or do you want to know, how a mainframe looks like? Then the first session is the best for receiving such an introduction. We will cover following topics: 1) IBM z15 versus LinuxONE III 2) History of LinuxONE systems 3) How does a mainframe looks like? 4) Specific hardware (LPAR, network cards, storage, …) 5a) Crypto support (CPACF, Crypto Express Card) 5b) Pervasive Encryption 6) z/VM and KVM for Virtualization 7) (official/in-official) supported Linux distributions 8) VMs in the LinuxONE (OSS) Community Cloud Afterwards, you are enabled for doing your first steps with Linux on Z environments. You will know, how the sstem is look like for what you want to build and what are specific hardware requirements. You will receive such invitations bi-weekly (also for the next training sessions)! That is a lot for 90 minutes. Therefore, it is good to have a break for thinking about the content before jumping to the next topics for becoming a professional Linux on Z Developer. :-) Best regards, Sarah and Ihno openSUSE zSystems
