Re: [gentoo-server] Getting commercial software certified on Gentoo

[TRauMa]

Hi,

Matthew Marlowe wrote:

>I do not think there is much gentoo itself can do to gain commercial certifications other than:
>- Continue to improve the quality of the distribution
>- Have responsive contacts when commercial companies finally show interest
>
>
AFAIK, you don't certify for a distribution vendor, but for a certain 
fixed distribution. So you can say software X is certified for Fedora 
Core rc2, SuSE Professional 9.2 and Debian 3.0. But gentoo is (and 
that's part of its beauty) a moving target, and therefore you never can 
say if X will work on it (what about the next glibc update, for example).

Maybe this will change with the introduction of the hypothetical 
server/ultra stable tier, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Regards
    T.