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

[Brett Curtis <splatbox@gmail.com>]

This sounds great, I run six different types of xseries at work all
with gentoo. Never had any issues besides lm_sensors threatening  to
cook my mobos ;)

What exactly would this do for me as a ibm-gentoo user?  Is this more
or less I can, if this goes through, buy a ibm with gentoo pre-loaded?

Thanks


On 5/4/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> I was just going to say something similar, although I'm not an employee
> of IBM. Gentoo's parent organization is non-profit, and IBM is a
> for-profit international corporation. That means, at least in the USA,
> that any such agreement would need to be negotiated and approved by what
> Stan Freberg referred to as "a battery of white-lipped attorneys". I was
> surprised to see Debian on the original list for the same reason. Can
> someone confirm there is actually an IBM certification for Debian?
> 
> BTW, here in the USA, for all practical purposes, if you want a
> corporate blessing for Linux on a particular hardware platform, your
> choices are pretty much constrained to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM, HP
> and Dell I believe all have corporate agreements with Red Hat, and I
> wasn't even aware of SUSE being present in the approved list. The only
> other "corporate blessed Linux" I know of is the Wal-Mart low end PC
> that comes with Linspire loaded on it.
> 
> Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
> 
> > 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
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