Ubuntu Receives IBM DB2 Certification

Khakionion writes "Ubuntu has announced their recent certification for IBM's DB2 Universal Database for Linux. Quite a big step for Ubuntu towards becoming one of the heavyweights of the Linux world." From the announcement: "With an respected product like DB2 on Ubuntu, our partners will relish the chance to discuss database and solution choices with their clients."

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[BrookHarty]

Isn't Debian 3 already certified? So ubuntu which is based on Debian shouldnt be hard.

I recently started playing with Ubuntu after seeing it climb to #1 on distrowatch.com, and I must say, very nice. Made me switch from Mandriva, and I wont touch Gentoo again after this. SuSE seems a little more polished, but debian has more packages.

Also think I'll dump gentoo, really liking having all the packages I need and not compiling. Going to try sparc debian tomorrow at work, kinda interested to see how the instal

Compiling Anyway

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

At this point, I've been having so many dependency issues with apt and yum, that 70% of the time, I end up compiling from source anyway. So I'm in fact moving to Gentoo. I'm sure it won't be a paneaca of all my dependency ills, but the way things stand I'm practically running a custom compiled system anyway.

Re:Compiling Anyway

[John Nowak]

Debian's package management isn't good because of apt (or even aptitude): It is good because of the repository and package management process.

Re:Compiling Anyway

[moro_666]

i've been using debian for 4 years now ... i admit i like the apt as it is and the dependancy issues can usually be resolved with some effort.

but the thing that bothers me is that debian is lately lagging far behind of the actual releases. for example, when slashdot was writing that 1.0.x version of firefox is invulnerable to something and all the previous versions too, then sitting on 1.0.(x-2) doesn't really feel good, and the waiting 2 months to get the upgrade smells funny.

tried out gentoo lately too ..

Re:Compiling Anyway

[Knuckles]

If you have dependency problems in Debian, you need to learn how to use you distro. Seriously. Let me recycle this comment [slashdot.org]. Or look into the docs [linux.org.tw]. (4th link on google for 'debian "security fix" version' btw.).

Re:Compiling Anyway

[JabberWokky]

Just replace the final make install with checkinstall and you can install your compiled from source app as a package with all the happy modularity and ease of use that comes from a package manager. I'm not telling you not to go to Gentoo, just tossing a seldom considered option.

--
Evan

Re:Compiling Anyway

[stevey]

Definitely seconded. I wrote a tutorial on using checkinstall for Debian [debian-adm...ration.org] which explains how it works with a small example.

99% of the time I use Debian's excellent package repository, but for the remaining 1% checkinstall is the way to go, as it lets you deal with your package in the normal manner.

How important?

[JanneM]

How important are these kinds of certifications really? I assume they are really just a fancy way of saying "we support our software on this platform and are prepared to sell support and consulting services for our system running on it". If $LARGE_CORP decides to run, say, db2 on a system that isn't certified, wouldn't IBM be happy to take their money for support and such anyway - probably with an added surcharge due to the lack of certification, but on the other hand with a rebate for being $LARGE_CORP rather than $SMALL_FRY?

Re:How important?

[sydb]

You need to learn to think like a manager. Not all the time, of course, just for the sake of role play.

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Re:How important?

[turbidostato]

"How important are these kinds of certifications really?"

It is not important, but essential when working on corporate environments.

"I assume they are really just a fancy way of saying "we support our software on this platform and are prepared to sell support and consulting services for our system running on it"

No: it is more saying we WON'T sell support and consulting UNLESS we previously said so (via a certification).

While it should be less of an issue when talking about open software (others will do what

I agree, this is a DUH move.

[ChrisMroz]

How many of us have family that dont play games but are computer illiterate? So many distros have managed to meet the criteria for a so-called perfect OS alternative. Ubuntu is it... or if you dont think its it, it will be. Near perfect project management and one of the best foundations to build on, Ubuntu isn't going anywhere. Good job IBM, here's a cookie. While I'm not staying away from gentoo or my flavor of slack(SLAMD64! w00t,) I will be putting more fear in the eyes of my WinONLY friends just becau

Re:I agree, this is a DUH move.

[turbidostato]

"Ubuntu isn't going anywhere"

That's still to be seen.

Ubuntu had an easy start since they had a ton of money and an almost finished product (that date's Debian Sarge, which was almost frozen). Now Ubuntu is going away from Debian Stable (since they more or less follow Testing/Unstable) and the effects of using a more beta-quality master are already noticeable: Breezy Badger (current Ubuntu) is quite unpolished (few days ago I made a "clean install" then I tried to install KDE just to see it was not possible

Is parent trolling?

[jonasj]

You won't get any dependency problems installing KDE on Breezy. That's a plain lie.

And this:

Ubuntu had an easy start since they had a ton of money and an almost finished product (that date's Debian Sarge, which was almost frozen).

Wrong: All Ubuntu releases, including the first one, was based on Debian Unstable.

Re:Is parent trolling?

[turbidostato]

"You won't get any dependency problems installing KDE on Breezy. That's a plain lie."

Well, you can tell *others* this is a lie, but you can't tell that to me.

I *did* install Ubuntu (which installed Gnome by default using the "standard" procedure), I *did* executed `apt-get update` and `apt-get install kde` and I *did* get a broken dependencies message.

You can believe it or not; you can even test it by yourself, but you *cannot* tell me what I did and what did I saw with my own eyes.

"Wrong: All Ubuntu releas

Nice, but irrelevant...

[samj]

because distributions and vendors should be targeting the Linux Standards Base. IMO announcements like this are a step back for standards and remind me of the days we were hearing similar statements from RedHat.

MOD +1 FUNNY

[metamatic]

Except I've a horrible feeling you're probably serious.

Re:Offtopic

[SilverspurG]

Over the last 6 hours I've watched that post go from 1-5-4-5-4. The silly part is that it's completely truthful and the mods still kick it.

What would you do if the ref were easily trollable? :) From the ref's perspective, you'd mod it down.

Mods are easily trolled.