On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > to support Debian??
The first thing I would do is to try to convince the vendor not to get so hung up on supporting different distributions. If their product depends tightly on kernel stuff, then they should base their support matrix on kernel version, not on distribution. Point them at Platform Computing as an example of how to do it with LSF. They support Linux, and they don't give a stuff what distribution you're running. They support certain kernels, and certain C libraries, and other than that they don't care. And they're not too precise about kernel version - on X86 you can run any 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and any 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 glibc. They're a little pickier on other architectures (they don't support 2.6 on either Alpha or Itanium yet). Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
