A decade of Ubuntu on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

This year we celebrate a decade of Ubuntu Server support on the s390x architecture: marking a long-standing collaboration between Canonical and IBM that began at LinuxCon 2015 . The first release happened on April 21, 2016, bringing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) to IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE platforms. A first for Ubuntu on IBM That release was a significant milestone: for the first time, enterprises could deploy the vast Ubuntu ecosystem directly on IBM hardware.