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Latest Updates from the Mainframe

Alpine Linux 3.8 announced with support for z/VM and KVM on s390x

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Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. Adding support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x) was one of the first Open Mainframe Project…

Tuan Hoang: I am a Mainframer

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In this interview Jeff chats with Tuan Hoang. Jeff and Tuan talk about value of Alpine on the mainframe.

Open Mainframe Service Broker Project

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The Open Mainframe Foundation sponsored a Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Capstone Senior Design project to build a Service Broker using Docker on the Linux One Community Cloud. The project was…

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