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This sounds great, I run six different types of xseries at work all |
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with gentoo. Never had any issues besides lm_sensors threatening to |
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cook my mobos ;) |
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What exactly would this do for me as a ibm-gentoo user? Is this more |
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or less I can, if this goes through, buy a ibm with gentoo pre-loaded? |
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Thanks |
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On 5/4/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I was just going to say something similar, although I'm not an employee |
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> of IBM. Gentoo's parent organization is non-profit, and IBM is a |
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> for-profit international corporation. That means, at least in the USA, |
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> that any such agreement would need to be negotiated and approved by what |
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> Stan Freberg referred to as "a battery of white-lipped attorneys". I was |
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> surprised to see Debian on the original list for the same reason. Can |
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> someone confirm there is actually an IBM certification for Debian? |
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> BTW, here in the USA, for all practical purposes, if you want a |
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> corporate blessing for Linux on a particular hardware platform, your |
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> choices are pretty much constrained to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM, HP |
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> and Dell I believe all have corporate agreements with Red Hat, and I |
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> wasn't even aware of SUSE being present in the approved list. The only |
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> other "corporate blessed Linux" I know of is the Wal-Mart low end PC |
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> that comes with Linspire loaded on it. |
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> Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: |
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> > daniel.kerwin@×××××××.de wrote: |
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> > >First of all there are a lot of questions to answer: |
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> > |
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> > >- Who can do the certification? |
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> > >- What must be done to become certified? |
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> > >- What hardwaretypes will IBM offer? |
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> > >- Will the hardware stay at IBM or somewhere else? |
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> > |
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> > >Aside all IBM customers should request support for Gentoo from IBM |
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> > >because they'll only take this serious if many customers request |
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> > >support. |
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> > |
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> > Being an IBM employee in my day job I can provide some insight here. |
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> > NO |
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> > ;-) |
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> > I have an extremely hard time believing that IBM would endorse a |
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> > community supported distro. The only distros that IBM supports are |
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> > corporate backed (RedHat, Suse, Turbo). So unless Gentoo is under |
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> > going a major change in the near future. |
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> > That said - I'm frequently wrong ;-) But hey, let us know what you |
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> > find out |
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> > -- |
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> > Omkhar Arasaratnam - Gentoo PPC64 Developer |
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> > omkhar@g.o - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar |
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> > Gentoo Linux / PPC64 Linux: http://ppc64.gentoo.org |
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