Sine Nomine Associates has recently published an ad in Enterprise Tech Journal entitled Enhancing Scalability, Reliability, Security and Afforability on Mainframes and Beyond is the Focus of Sine Nomine Assocites. The ad runs on pages D46 and D47 in the publication.

The Open Mainframe Project (OMP) has announced that it will hold its inaugural Open Mainframe Summit September 16-17, 2020 with featured speakers from Broadcom, Hyperledger, IBM, and The Linux Foundation.

From the conference website:

The VM Workshop Planning Committee would like to thank the nearly 300 attendees that participated in our virtual event. We hope that you found it of value and would ask that you take a short 3 minute survey to help us understand how we did and to help us plan for next year’s event.

OpenAFS 1.8.6 is the next in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.7) and macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.

Note that aklog and klog.krb5 will now require the -insecure_des switch in order to work with the weak and deprecated single-DES encryption types.

OpenAFS 1.8.6pre3 is the second beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS. It brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.7) and macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.

Note that aklog and klog.krb5 will now require the -insecure_des switch in order to work with the weak and deprecated single-DES encryption types.

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2020 is now a Virtual Experience, happening June 29 – July 2 on the US Central Time Zone.

VM Workshop Planning Committee  is thrilled to announce that registration for our 2020 Virtual Workshop (June 16 – 19) is now open.  Please proceed to our registration page to register for this no-cost 3 ½ day event. Registration is required for attendance.

OpenAFS 1.8.6pre2 is the first beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS. It brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.6) and macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.

For more information please visit. https://www.openafs.org

Sine Nomine Associates' OpenAFS team announced that OpenAFS client for MacOS Mohave and Catalina is now available to download. The downloads can be found here.

You can run OpenAFS on your mainframe as well.