really interesting :)
how can i help?
El mié, 04-05-2005 a las 11:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
This means it would be officially supported to run Gentoo on IBM
Hardware. This would give Gentoo a status like SUSE, Redhat or
Debian.
This could be the first step to become a supported
IBM has already been kind enough to donate some hardware to us. It has
yet to arrive at our hosting facility at OSU but I imagine that is only
a matter of time. Once the hardware is in place the ppc64 team (which is
mostly made up of IBM employees btw) will look into this further.
Thanks for the
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
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 09:47 am, Daniel Ostrow wrote:
IBM has already been kind enough to donate some hardware to us. It has
yet to arrive at our hosting facility at OSU but I imagine that is only
a matter of time. Once the hardware is in place the ppc64 team (which is
mostly made up of IBM
Well i also was very surprised to become this offering from IBM. I tried this for a long time with very less success :(
All i can say is that i talked to IBM's Senior IT Architct for Principal Linux Services and he told me that theres a chance to do this. Of cause he didn't said something about
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:08 am, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
What do we mean by support. Please bear in mind IBM DOES NOT support
Debian in this fashion AFAIK. IBM may assist with development to some
small extent but if a customer calls in and ask for support - they're
up a creek.
My
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Well i also was very surprised to become this offering from IBM. I
tried this for a long time with very less success :(
All i can say is that i talked to IBM's Senior IT Architct for
Principal Linux Services and he told
I'm not a lawyer, even in the USA. Maybe it's different in Germany, but
here in the USA, the relationships between for-profit and not-for-profit
organizations are highly regulated. IBM can (and has) given hardware or
sold hardware at lower prices to educational institutions. IBM has made
major
Gentoo pre-loaded? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
ducking
Seriously though, I too work with xSeries, as well as IBM desktops, and
I've loaded Debian, Gentoo and half a dozen other distros on them
without incident, as well as pre-Fedora Red Hat and RHEL clones. Left to
my own devices (pun
In a sense why i ask, gentoo preloaded would not intrest me.
I would like to see things like IBM supports / recommends gentoo-sources-2.6.x.
or tested with these CFLAGS with this processor.
Or emerge ibm-pixy-dust that would magically 'heal' my server...
I have only been at my job / working
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