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
