UbuntuLinux comes to IBM mainframe

Finally came. On LinuxCon, IBM and Canonical announced that UbuntuLinux will soon run on IBM mainframe LinuxONE. This is a Linux-only mainframe and can now run Ubuntu. The largest IBM one system released by IBM is called & lsquo; Emperor & rsquo;, which can be expanded to 8000 virtual machines or tens of thousands of containers.

Finally came. On LinuxCon, IBM and Canonical announced that Ubuntu Linux will soon run on IBM mainframe LinuxONE, a type of mainframe that only supports Linux and can now run Ubuntu.

The largest IBM one system released by IBM is called 'Emperor'. It can be expanded to 8000 virtual machines or tens of thousands of containers, which may be records of a single Linux system.

LinuxONE is called the game changer by IBM, And it releases the commercial potential of Linux '.

Soon you will be able to install Ubuntu Linux orange on your IBM mainframe.

According to Ross Mauri, general manager of IBM z systems, and Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, this is because the customer needs it. For more than a decade, the IBM mainframe only supports the Red Hat Enterprise Edition Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition (SLES) Linux releases.

As Ubuntu becomes more and more mature, more enterprises regard it as an enterprise-level Linux, and more people want it to run on the IBM mainframe. Especially for banks. Soon, financial CIOs will be able to meet their needs.

In an interview, Shuttleworth said that Ubuntu Linux can be used on the mainframe in the next long-term support version of Ubuntu April 2016 in 16.04. By the end of 2014, Canonical and IBM took the first step in bringing Ubuntu to IBM's POWER architecture.

Before that, Canonical and IBM almost signed an agreement to support the IBM mainframe in Ubuntu in 2011, but it was not. This time, it really happened.

Canonical CEO Jane Silber explained, "expanding Ubuntu platform support to IBM z systems is because of the recognition of the number of customers who need z systems to run their businesses and the maturity of the hybrid cloud market ."

Silber also said:

With the support of the z system, including the relationship between LinuxONE, Canonical and IBM, the support for the POWER Architecture and the OpenPOWER ecosystem are further deepened. Just as Power system customers benefit from Ubuntu's scalability, our agile development process has also supported similar POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface, consistent Accelerator Interface) in the market, customers of the z system can also expect rapid deployment of technological advances and benefit from Juju and other cloud tools to quickly provide new services to end users. In addition, our cooperation with IBM involves implementing extended deployment of many IBM and Juju software solutions. Mainframe customers are happy to use Juju to deploy the 'charming 'ibm solutions, products from other software vendors, and open-source solutions on the mainframe.

Shuttleworth expects Ubuntu on the z system to achieve great success. It is growing fast. Thanks to its support for OpenStack, those who wish to have superior cloud performance will be very happy.

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