From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail03.allianz.de (mail03.allianz.de [194.127.3.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j44ECTJD030968 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 14:12:29 GMT Received: from naimuc24.muc.allianz (naimuc24.muc.allianz [10.97.143.6]) by mail03.allianz.de with ESMTP id j44ECMiZ006561 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 16:12:36 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <4278CEE3.5070206@gentoo.org> Subject: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: From: daniel.kerwin@allianz.de Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:12:32 +0200 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/alternative; Boundary="0__=4EBBE564DFDE2B958f9e8a93df938690918c4EBBE564DFDE2B95" Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: fe787d13-526e-4cbe-8e48-0b1366b06897 X-Archives-Hash: ebc1e1cfcfdd33fde04f683f516b8eda --0__=4EBBE564DFDE2B958f9e8a93df938690918c4EBBE564DFDE2B95 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Well i also was very surprised to become this offering from IBM. I tried this for a long time with very less success :( All i can say is that i talked to IBM's Senior IT Architct for Principal Linux Services and he told me that theres a chance to do this. Of cause he didn't said something about a gurantee that IBM really would do so. But anyway i think it's definitively worth trying. Omkhar Arasaratnam schrieb am 04/05/2005 03:32:19 PM: > -----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=3D > =3Dc5/1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >= --0__=4EBBE564DFDE2B958f9e8a93df938690918c4EBBE564DFDE2B95 Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

Well i also was very surprised to become this offering from IBM. I t= ried this for a long time with very less success :(

All i can say is that i talked to IBM's Senior IT Architct for Principa= l Linux Services and he told me that theres a chance to do this. Of cau= se he didn't said something about a gurantee that IBM really would do s= o. But anyway i think it's definitively worth trying.

Omkhar Arasaratnam <omkhar@gentoo.org> schrieb am 04/05/2005 = 03:32:19 PM: > -----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 fro= m IBM > > because they'll only take this serious if many customers requ= est > > support. > > > Being an IBM employee in my day job I can provide some insight her= e. > > 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<= br> > 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: ht= tp://ppc64.gentoo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFCeM7j9msUWjh2lHURAnNHAJ4q98BHXEauPTOaF2uypWFk6fo27QCg24iC > li1fvOSA9RxDizGb+FDKGmc=3D > =3Dc5/1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >= --0__=4EBBE564DFDE2B958f9e8a93df938690918c4EBBE564DFDE2B95-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list