----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Duehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:17 AM, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > I was on a HP SAN course last week and was asking about support for > > Debian > > as opposed to Red Hat, and the answer was basically that it takes a > > long > > time to test Open Source operating systems and therefore the official > > support for any other distribution than Red Hat may happen at some > > stage, > > but not in the near future. > > Oh that's retarded. > > HP themselves *USE* Debian internally for a number of things, as it was > announced that it was a company standard some time ago. > > The giant left hand doesn't know what the giant right hand is doing... > > If one frustrated user can make a "usable" Debian package for those > systems in an evening or two, HP could certainly do a "professional" > quality one in a week and test it in along with the testing of the RH > RPM's. > > Their advanced Linux development group could whip up a proper .deb in > their sleep, I'm sure. > > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I know what you mean. I also recall seeing on the Debian news site something about a Debian host being made available by HP for public use for testing of software etc. I raised this with my instructor, and he didn't know anything about it, although to give him some credit, he seems to have a fairly high interest in Linux but he also comes from the Compaq side of things pre-merger. Mind you, this was a very specific course aimed at entry-level SAN's (MSA1000), but there was no mention of support for anything but Red Hat in the higher spec SAN's either, and I still have yet to see a Debian Woody or any other distribution available on either the old HP NetServer Navigator CD's or the new SmartStart CD's as an O/S option. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
