On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:52, Ryan Novosielski
<novos...@rutgers.edu<mailto:novos...@rutgers.edu>> wrote:
It’s pretty common that if something supports only one distribution, it’s
RedHat-based. That’s also true of hardware vendors.
True, officially, but often not officially. Again, back around 2008 I found it
hilariously irritating. HP supported a lot of Debian activity in the
background, and hosted quite a lot of the infrastructure. Officially, they
only supported Red Hat, but I discovered on a visit to Colorado Springs that
they actually developed all their drivers using Debian, and then ported them to
Red Hat!
A year or two later, I remember noticing that the firmware update ISOs that HP
distributed were also Debian-based. Even though they only distributed Red Hat
RPMs on them. Duh!
Tim
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