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Re: Compaq's support of Linux



On Thu, January 28 1999, Aviram Jenik <aviram@jenik.com> wrote:
|I didn't get if that's a yes or a no. Compaq can either formally support Linux
|or not (there's no "informal" formal support).
|
|I hate to break it, but none of the Linux sites can officially declare the
|support of Compaq, only Compaq can.
|
|...So I guess the answer is "no".

Here is an item which says that Compaq will support Linux.  It's not
official, but the media regards it as a done deal.  It's as close as I
can get for now (LinuxToday's link is slow now, they plan an upgrade
tommorow night)

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,385256,00.html

|
|Amos Shapira wrote:
|
|> On Thu, January 28 1999, Aviram Jenik <aviram@jenik.com> wrote:
|> |Hi.
|> |
|> |I read on the list (or was it somewhere else?) that Compaq announced
|> |full support of Linux as one of their possible server configuration.
|> |
|> |I asked a Compaq representative about this, and he didn't know what I'm
|> |talking about. According to him "Linux probably runs fine on
|> |Digital^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCompaq's Intel based servers, but there's no
|> |official support for it.
|> |
|> |Does anybody know differently? Could it be that the Israeli branch knows
|> |squat? (sure it could ;-)
|>
|> Sure it could.  But let things filter down the system.  It's a huge
|> organization and your best sources would be the PR's pointed through
|> LinuxToday/Slashdot/LWN and Compaq's site.
|>
|> It'll probably take a few weeks to actually happen.
|>
|> --Amos
|>
|> --Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
|> 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
|> Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
|> ISRAEL        amos@gezernet.co.il |                     -- Anonymous
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|Aviram Jenik
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|"Addicted to Chaos"
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|Today's quote:
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|Looking back it's still a bit fuzzy
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|

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL        amos@gezernet.co.il |                     -- Anonymous