Re: Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

[Omkhar Arasaratnam <omkhar@gentoo.org>]

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daniel.kerwin@allianz.de wrote:

> First of all there are a lot of questions to answer:
>
> - Who can do the certification?
> - What must be done to become certified?
> - What hardwaretypes will IBM offer?
> - Will the hardware stay at IBM or somewhere else?
>
> Aside all IBM customers should request support for Gentoo from IBM
> because they'll only take this serious if many customers request
> support.
>
Being an IBM employee in my day job I can provide some insight here.

NO

;-)

I have an extremely hard time believing that IBM would endorse a
community supported distro. The only distros that IBM supports are
corporate backed (RedHat, Suse, Turbo). So unless Gentoo is under
going a major change in the near future.
That said - I'm frequently wrong ;-) But hey, let us know what you
find out

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Omkhar Arasaratnam - Gentoo PPC64 Developer
omkhar@gentoo.org - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar
Gentoo Linux / PPC64 Linux: http://ppc64.gentoo.org
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