On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:20 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > What exactly does "certified to work" mean? If its anything similar > to Microsoft's WHQL certification, then its just a meaningly marketing > effort, and doesn't really guarentee any more than that the drivers > exist and support the hardware. RedHat used to have (and probably still does) a very large lab staffed to certify that a piece of hardware would run with RedHat's distribution... which earned the 'Certified to Run with RedHat' seal of approval. I think the vendor paid for this cert. I haven't seen this lately in magazine ads, as I did in 2000, so I do not know if this is a ongoing effort with them. But, RedHat and Dell were thick as fleas back then. I have no clue towards their relationship now, but RedHat and Suse are their major offerings still, for their server lines. 25% isn't bad, it used to be a LOT less! Ric
