From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j44DWN28013836 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 13:32:24 GMT Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (omkhar@rogers.com@70.24.80.217 with plain) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 May 2005 13:32:29 -0000 Message-ID: <4278CEE3.5070206@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:32:19 -0400 From: Omkhar Arasaratnam Organization: ppc64.gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=38769475 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 26ca21d9-b6ae-466d-9b44-2b029616650e X-Archives-Hash: 141b92778a142c245fb9c11e736e9961 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Omkhar Arasaratnam - Gentoo PPC64 Developer omkhar@gentoo.org - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar Gentoo Linux / PPC64 Linux: http://ppc64.gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCeM7j9msUWjh2lHURAnNHAJ4q98BHXEauPTOaF2uypWFk6fo27QCg24iC li1fvOSA9RxDizGb+FDKGmc= =c5/1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list