System z Update

A presentation at Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts (CAVMEN) in June 2009 in Lincolnshire, IL, USA by Shawn Wells

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System z Update 18-JUNE CAVMEN Meeting Shawn D. Wells sdw@redhat.com System z Platform Manager (+1) 443 534 0130

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Red Hat Community Contributions  Largest contributor to Xorg http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1  Sistina GFS file system, LVM2 and associated clustering tools acquired for 31 million dollars and completely released as OSS  Netscape directory server open sourced as Fedora/Red Hat directory Server - Bought for around 25 million dollars, open sourced 2

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Red Hat Community Contributions              gnome.org infrastructure, hosting and bandwidth Plymouth: graphical boot system pango: originally written and maintained glib, gtk+: most primary maintainers and developer work metacity: written and maintained nautilus: co-maintained gnome-panel: co-maintained gnome-session: maintained vte: written and maintained cairo: written (employee) and maintained pixman: maintained gconf: written and maintained dbus: written (employee) and maintained             DeviceKit: written and maintained hal: written (employee) and maintained Avahi: maintained PulseAudio: maintained gnome-keyring: written and maintained gnome control-center: comaintained evince: written and maintained NetworkManager: written and maintained gnome-menus: written and maintained sabayon: written dogtail - UI automation and testing framework Xorg: major contributions and maintenance 3

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Red Hat Community Contributions               coreutils - developed and maintained LVM2, md - maintained KVM virtualization- developed and maintained Autofs - maintained SELinux o Maintains User space tools o Targeted policy o MLS Policy o Setroubleshoot Kernel 2.6 Audit subsystem written and maintained ipsec - maintained crypto - maintained ext3 - Written and maintained vfs- Written and maintained               Kernel 2.6 Virtual Memory manager - Written and maintained kernel 2.6 CPU scheduler - Written and maintained netdump and netconsole NPTL - Written and maintained Tux - Written and maintained several SATA drivers Several network drivers Network stack parted - co-maintained grub - development util-linux-ng - maintained rsyslog - co-maintained, significant influence cronie - development abrt - development 4

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Red Hat Community Contributions               RPM - Written and maintained up2date - Written and maintained anaconda - Written and maintained firstboot - Written and maintained system-config-tools - Written and maintained yum - Maintained func - Written and maintained cobbler - Written and maintained spacewalk - Written and maintained booty - Written and maintained kudzu - Written and maintained mkinitrd - Written and maintained ntsysv - Written and maintained rhpl - Written and maintained               gfs - Written (Sistina) and maintained gfs2 - Written and maintained dlm - Written and maintained gulm - Written and maintained cman - Written and maintained rgmanager - Written and maintained ccs - Written and maintained fence - Written and maintained system-config-cluster - Written and maintained gnbd - Written and maintained dmraid - Written and maintained bddraid - Written and maintained csnap - Written and maintained JFFS2 5

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Red Hat Community Contributions        libvirt: The Virtualization API oVirt: The web based virtualization management app Virtual Machine Manager: A Python + PyGTK management application built with libvirt VirtInst A python library for simplifying provisioning of guest VMs with libvirt sVirt SVirt it the integration of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) security and Linux-based virtualization Supporting Xen virtualization Sponsoring KVM hypervisor development 6

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Red Hat Community Contributions Enough! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions - Who wrote 2.6.20? Analysis showing Red Hat as the leading contributor to the Linux Kernel Who wrote - and approved - 2.6.22 Analysis showing Red Hat as the leading contributor to the Linux Kernel Who wrote 2.6.23 Analysis showing Red Hat as the leading contributor to the Linux Kernel Where 2.6.25 came from Analysis showing Red Hat as the leading contributor to the Linux Kernel 7

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Fedora for System z! Posted to LINUX-390 on 18-JUNE The Fedora s390x team is pleased to announce a first preview of Fedora 11 for s390x in form of a prebuilt hercules image and as a tarball which can be unpacked on a free DASD of your z9 or z10. We currently have ~11600 binary packages of Fedora 11/s390x and are working on getting real boot images. Hercules images with instructions can be downloaded from http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ Individual packages are available at https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=s390x 8

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Fedora for System z! Individual packages are available at https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=s390x More info will be added in the next few days at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x If you’re interested, please join our mailing list at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-s390x or our IRC channel #fedora-s390x on freenode.net 9

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