https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220921005391/en/AlmaLinux-Foundation-Builds-AlmaLinux-OS-8-for-s390x
“The AlmaLinux OS Foundation<https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Falmalinux.org%2F&esheet=52921706&newsitemid=20220921005391&lan=en-US&anchor=AlmaLinux+OS+Foundation&index=1&md5=f6b72c3a28ed282ae1298b4390138b4b>, the nonprofit that stewards the community-owned and governed open source CentOS successor AlmaLinux, is announcing that AlmaLinux 8 now supports s390x. AlmaLinux OS is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL® and pre-Stream CentOS. “The most important part of making AlmaLinux 8 available for s390x is that mainframe operators now have a platform to build packages for s390x, which was a real gap and something not available before. This enables community initiatives like EPEL to continue growing their user base and community. Mainframe enthusiasts now have a CentOS alternative, too. We see real enthusiasm in the community for an s390x distribution, and since CentOS never built 8 for s390x, we’re excited to provide this totally new distribution. We’ve already proven we can rebuild RHEL’s sources really well, this was taking it up a notch and creating an actual distribution from scratch,” said Andrew Lukoshko, AlmaLinux OS Architect. “There’s real demand and real enthusiasm from the community. We’ve even provided containers for AlmaLinux 8 for s390x.” Neale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
