>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:49:18 -0500, Robert Murphy <[email protected]> said:
> This is Robert Murphy with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Support Line. > Regarding PMR 42841,442,000, > TSM 6.1 Linux Backup-Archive client "best effort" supported distributions > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&tcss=Newsletter&uid=swg21417165 I understand that you don't support install beyond RHEL and SLES, and that's what I'm suggesting be changed. I've got a passel of links on the topic, and am writing my own docs for my local user community. But I'm appealing through Official Channels to have Ubuntu added to the supported list, because it's rapidly growing in my client population. Others on the TSM mailing list appear to have similar experiences. Ubuntu is becoming an important customer platform, maybe even the dominant desktop. Users of the platform are accustomed to clicking an entry in a GUI and having installs magically happen: the level of polish is substantial. Telling this community of users that they need to go run alien, and then make a few links, and oh, make sure you've got the 32-bit compatibility libraries installed... The Debian population would take that set of instructions and be happily content. The Ubuntu population is not, in general, equipped to do so. It would advance IBM's goals to make the Ubuntu install smooth. - Allen S. Rout
