[OT: Yes, I'm aware that there other other Linuces beyond RH, but we're
committed to HP hardware which is only certified for RH and SuSE (one of
my colleagues has been told by an HP engineer that they support Debian but
I've yet to see anything official). We have zero SuSE experience in-house,
so RH kind of have us by the danglies...]
That sounds depressingly like you're talking about MS or some custom software vendor, not Red Hat. The price of successful business, I guess.
He is referring to HP certifying the software, which I am sure has more to do with demand than anything devious. HP isn't going to go to the trouble to support some version that not many of their customers are using. I am not sure why you would fault RedHat for HP not certifying other distributions besides RedHat and SuSE.
-- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
