For more details click on this check out the full announcement on the Alpine Linux site. The enables the use of KVM in addition to z/VM for provisioning and management of Linux instances. With the latest Alpine Linux v3.8 release, support for ISO image installs on s390x has been added.

Tuan Hoang, now a graduate student at Marist College, did the initial work during the internship period and continued his work over the following months, concluding with the release of Alpine Linux 3.6 last spring. Alpine Linux is one of the open source projects that is part of our supported projects program, which helps open source projects with the needed infrastructure and resources to support mainframe architecture in their projects. Download, install and maintain your own GitLab instance with various installation packages and downloads for Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud and. Adding support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x) was one of the first Open Mainframe Project Internship Program projects from the class in summer 2016.

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

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