> 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.
So far, YDL isn't doing any developement work on the kernel or drivers. They do support me in some ways, they do a bunch of testing and they have a lot of work setting up a working userland environement, but most of the PowerMac driver work to support new machines is done by me on my spare time. (And I live in France ;) > 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. > > 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. And ? What distribution they provide shouldn't be an issue provided they sell you with support a server that does what you need properly with good support, right ? If they sell a Linux based server, you can be sure they will provide proper drivers. You actually have more chances getting drivers from/for IBM since they actually support linux on their machines than drivers for Apple machines, since Apple doesn't support linux in any way and we don't have specs for their chipsets. Ben.
