From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mails.dtic.mil (mails.dtic.mil [131.84.1.19]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j44EO0b1014416 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 14:24:00 GMT Received: from sys947.dtic.mil (sys947.dtic.mil [131.84.90.47]) by mails.dtic.mil (8.11.7p1+Sun/Oct04cac) with ESMTP id j44EO5711372 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 10:24:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Cummings To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:24:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4278D32D.3070000@cesmail.net> <4278D772.70709@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4278D772.70709@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1247255.MFNhi1gHyT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505041024.06519.mcummings@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 6c3c7001-5041-42c8-9cd0-ecb2550ab763 X-Archives-Hash: 21d33a2b456b7edd4c8d15d006a061f4 --nextPart1247255.MFNhi1gHyT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:08 am, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > What do we mean by "support". Please bear in mind IBM DOES NOT support > Debian in this fashion AFAIK. IBM may assist with development to some > small extent but if a customer calls in and ask for support - they're > up a creek. My interpretation of "support" was that if a customer of IBM installed Gent= oo,=20 they would still have support for strictly hardware related issues=20 (motherboard; memory; processor; etc.). I know from frightful experience th= at=20 some hardware mass-vendors will not provide hardware support if you are not= =20 running the OS that they installed for you at the factory. Is this a fair=20 assumption of the IBM possibility? =2D-=20 =2D----o()o--------------------------------------------- Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net=20 =2D----o()o--------------------------------------------- --nextPart1247255.MFNhi1gHyT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCeNsGq1ztTp5/Ti4RAvImAKC0IztZ764OLs4uMswhjt3RWbXseQCgjMYk 4iCbPITIWhYexmXNxG9Bgyg= =2XPM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1247255.MFNhi1gHyT-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list