Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Now Officially Available for IBM LinuxONE and z Systems

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, April 22, 2016, Canonical has had the great pleasure of announcing the general availability of its Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system for IBM z Systems and LinuxONE mainframe computers.

After being in development for the past six months, the new long-term supported version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system has been officially released for desktop, server, and cloud on 64-bit (amd64), 32-bit (i386), ARM64 (AArch64), ArmHardFloat (armhf), as well as PowerPC Little Endian (PPC64el) architectures on April 21, 2016.

And today, Canonical is proud to announce the s390x port of its Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, which can be installed on IBM’s z System and LinuxONE servers, providing developers and system administrators with an ideal platform for all… (read more)

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