From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j44EIUUP001258 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 14:18:30 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so196419wri for ; Wed, 04 May 2005 07:18:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hVwzPhvANYsWeflw78UP7Gpbf/mCHzRxy4iC9kwCgaKifQAm1uzvTlBYsYdS8K62dHsoGrd1zqoZ0Ha4RQDXU5vdXTJhDBLyxDAIoXl+KQ/4eGcaw5UP9t/lyTB+0r4LSp/YawFdm8fwPR6HyCCd2s93wbonFcUtSfJ6QgrQ5yM= Received: by 10.54.10.25 with SMTP id 25mr259904wrj; Wed, 04 May 2005 07:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.31.39 with HTTP; Wed, 4 May 2005 07:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4e9f971a050504071819bca7e7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:18:37 -0400 From: Brett Curtis To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware In-Reply-To: <4278D32D.3070000@cesmail.net> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <4278CEE3.5070206@gentoo.org> <4278D32D.3070000@cesmail.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j44EIUUP001258 X-Archives-Salt: 7526700d-9dd0-4bcb-beba-ceb5b03997f2 X-Archives-Hash: 600b9af867d5bb3da027c714d69d5fbf 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 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 > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list