Re: Supported systems (Was: Apple PowerMac G5)
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:28:48PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:07:20 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:02:11PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> >
> >> The fact is that even at their US website the information is
> >> sketchy. There seems to be a preocuppation about preventing infoglut,
> >> but that left me in the cold.
> >>
> >> Considering that Debian GNU/Linux on the Apple Macintosh is
> >> unsupported in Europe.
> >
> > Err, the apple macintosh is supported by Debian worldwide, but i guess
> > we don't use the same meaning to the word 'support'.
> >
> > What kind of support do you need exactly ?
>
> I mean, YD has a commitment to support the PowerMacs in the
> US, bringing drivers and all that up to date and integrated. Not
> applicable to Debian nor to Europe -- French Switzerland in
> particular.
I think Benjamin Herrenschmidt and other are doing that, even there is
no legal contract.
> What I need is a silent RISC server with RAID and power supply
> redundancy, three years on-site hardware warranty, and the assurance
> all pieces will have drivers.
The easiest way to do this is to pay yourself for the driver
developpment, but i agree with you that this may be expensive, and not
what you want, that it would be better if a third party company will do
that. Also, the geographical limitation on the support is moot, we are
in a global world, especially in what regards linux and debian in
particular, which is a world spanning organisation.
hardware warranty is another thing though.
but on the driver side, i guess it will get supported by debian as soon
as the various linuxppc kernels support it, and if YD adds support for
it to the official kernel, it will work just as well with debian.
> I could buy a IBM machine, but it is probably not silent and I
> am not sure of getting all drivers for it. "Linux" for them probably
> means SuSE and Red Hat. I could buy a Pegasos or A1, but their
> support and integration story still is not there, at least not in the
> timeframe I need -- second week of July.
Yep, i understand, too bad.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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