Yes I am involved with the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project. We have a Technical Steering Committee which set the project direction. We expect to have focus on projects that will benefit running open software on the mainframe. Phil
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 11, 2015, at 8:32 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the question is about Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project > in partnership with a bunch of people. > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/08/linux-foundation-brings-together-industry-heavyweights-advance > > https://www.openmainframeproject.org/ > > Regards, > > Dimitri. > >> On 12 December 2015 at 01:27, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hmmm... >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mainframe >> >> That's entirely different from what I thought it was. >> >> Neverrrrrr Minnnnnnndddd >> >> -soup >> >>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:23 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Open Mainframe? News to me. >>> >>> Mainframes require three criteria: >>> >>> 1) Maximum *reliable* single-thread performance (see the "Linux on S/390" >>> redbook "Appendix A" for how reliability is tricked out); >>> 2) Maximum I/O throughput; and >>> 3) Maximum I/O connectivity. >>> >>> Admittedly, criterion 3 is kind of undercut by SAN technology. >>> >>> Additionally, the instruction set need not mimic the zSeries to be a >>> mainframe. We already know that handling memory access faults in IBM's SS >>> instructions for virtual machine functionality that much harder to pull >>> off... >>> >>> Now you've all just added to my reading list. >>> >>> (laughs maniacally) >>> >>> "You are the MS-DOS of Evil... Only 640K... Not EVIL Enough!" >>> >>> -soup >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Christer Solskogen < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved >>>> somehow? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> chs >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >>>> visit >>>> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >>>> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot >>> com >>> MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows >>> "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; >>> Regardless >>> of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail >>> because, >>> somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me >> >> >> >> -- >> John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot >> com >> MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows >> "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; >> Regardless >> of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, >> somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > -- > Regards, > > Dimitri. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
