# Community

## Other Voices

IBM has an enormous library of freely available documentation.
The underlying z/VM environment is approachable described in:

    [Getting Started with z/VM for Linux](http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcsx0c31.pdf)

Which is IBM document  SC24-6194-06 (August 2017)

In one of the discussion and community (and professional but free)
support mailing lists, that work was described by an IBM professional
on one the freely available mailing lists thus:

> One of the simplest is the Getting Started with z/VM for Linux manual
> that is part of the z/VM library.  It was intended as a basic fishing
> lesson, as opposed to just handing you fishing [tackle]

In IBM documentation identification, the last two digits indicate
the revision level of the document, here: -06 and was released,
not unexpectedly, in August 2017

There is something of acquiring a new skill in reading IBM documentation.
At one time, IBM was said to be the third largest publisher of originally
authored document in the US, behind the US Department of Defense,
and the Boy Scouts of America.  Not surprising, each of the three
is in the business of training people from wholly ignorant of a field,
to full competence. Reading the (fine manual) documentation is to learn
from professionally designed, and maintained training materials.
That said, as the documentation cannot assay your particular level
of competence in an area, it has to have parts that you 'already know',
and may safely skip over

## Mailing lists

As intimated, there are several mailing lists to which one may freely
subscribe, read, watch discussion between professionals, and so to learn.

FIXME -- add s390 list first

-- UARK 's390' list

Description

    http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=IBMVM

Archive
(authentication required to prevent mailing list 'spam' address farming)

    http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=IBMVM

Or send an email with the word:

    help

or

    subscribe

in the body to:

    IBMVM-request@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU

--  Fedoraproject 's390x' mailing list

Archive (open, with email addresses obscured)

    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/s390x@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Or send an email with the word:

    subscribe

in the body to:

    s390x-request@lists.fedoraproject.org

-- Debian

Archive (open, with email addresses plaintext)

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/

Or send an email with the word:

    subscribe

in the subject line to:

    mailto:debian-s390-request@lists.debian.org


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