This sounds great, I run six different types of xseries at work all with gentoo. Never had any issues besides lm_sensors threatening to cook my mobos ;)
What exactly would this do for me as a ibm-gentoo user? Is this more or less I can, if this goes through, buy a ibm with gentoo pre-loaded? Thanks On 5/4/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just going to say something similar, although I'm not an employee > of IBM. Gentoo's parent organization is non-profit, and IBM is a > for-profit international corporation. That means, at least in the USA, > that any such agreement would need to be negotiated and approved by what > Stan Freberg referred to as "a battery of white-lipped attorneys". I was > surprised to see Debian on the original list for the same reason. Can > someone confirm there is actually an IBM certification for Debian? > > BTW, here in the USA, for all practical purposes, if you want a > corporate blessing for Linux on a particular hardware platform, your > choices are pretty much constrained to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM, HP > and Dell I believe all have corporate agreements with Red Hat, and I > wasn't even aware of SUSE being present in the approved list. The only > other "corporate blessed Linux" I know of is the Wal-Mart low end PC > that comes with Linspire loaded on it. > > Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar > > Gentoo Linux / PPC64 Linux: http://ppc64.gentoo.org > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
