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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> I was just going to say something similar, although I'm not an |
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> employee of IBM. Gentoo's parent organization is non-profit, and |
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> IBM is a for-profit international corporation. That means, at least |
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> in the USA, that any such agreement would need to be negotiated and |
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> approved by what Stan Freberg referred to as "a battery of |
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> white-lipped attorneys". I was surprised to see Debian on the |
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> original list for the same reason. Can someone confirm there is |
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> 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, |
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> your choices are pretty much constrained to Red Hat Enterprise |
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> Linux. IBM, HP and Dell I believe all have corporate agreements |
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> with Red Hat, and I wasn't even aware of SUSE being present in the |
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> approved list. The only other "corporate blessed Linux" I know of |
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> is the Wal-Mart low end PC 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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>>> - Who can do the certification? - What must be done to become |
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>>> certified? - What hardwaretypes will IBM offer? - Will the |
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>>> hardware stay at IBM or somewhere else? |
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>>> Aside all IBM customers should request support for Gentoo from |
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>>> IBM because they'll only take this serious if many customers |
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>>> request support. |
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>> Being an IBM employee in my day job I can provide some insight |
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>> 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 |
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>> are corporate backed (RedHat, Suse, Turbo). So unless Gentoo is |
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>> under going a major change in the near future. That said - I'm |
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>> frequently wrong ;-) But hey, let us know what you find out |
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>> -- Omkhar Arasaratnam - Gentoo PPC64 Developer omkhar@g.o |
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>> - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar Gentoo Linux / PPC64 Linux: |
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>> http://ppc64.gentoo.org |
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It's definately possible that we're comparing apples to oranges here. |
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What *EXACTLY* is meant by support? |
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1. Will IBM throw some h/w to Gentoo for free - yes. |
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2. Will IBM assist with packaging some utilities if we raise enough of |
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a stink - maybe |
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3. Will IBM assist a customer with break/fix, SLA'ed support or |
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preload Gentoo on any server - hell no |
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What do we mean by "support". Please bear in mind IBM DOES NOT support |
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Debian in this fashion AFAIK. IBM may assist with development to some |
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small extent but if a customer calls in and ask for support - they're |
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up a creek. |
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So what are we looking for ? Like I stated before, IBM only officially |
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supports RHEL, SLES, Turbo Linux. |
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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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