Canonical to Build a Special Ubuntu OS for IBM's LinuxONE and z Systems

Posted by thesilviu on Aug 18, 2015 2:48 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Canonical and IBM have just announced a new partnership to bring Ubuntu scale-out and cloud expertise to the IBM z Systems platform by introducing two new Linux mainframe servers.

IBM already had a partnership with Canonical, but now it has been extended. In fact, Canonical will create a new Ubuntu distribution that will run on the LinuxONE and z Systems, and IBM will contribute back to the community with the single largest amount of mainframe code. In fact, IBM has a long history with Linux, and it was one of the big companies that used Linux for its mainframe, more than 15 years ago.

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