On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 17:49 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: [...]
> 2. How are we going to deal with > drivers for new hardware - upgrade the kernel to LTS+1's ? > > AFAIK Ubuntu does not add drivers for new hardware to any version save > for, maybe, some exceptional cases (that I cannot remember, frankly). > > > Quite the opposite: it's the hardware manufacturers themselves who are > compelled to provide drivers for RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu LTS due to > customers asking. That's why there is an option to "load drivers from > disk" at the very beginning of installation (isolinux prompt) on RHEL, > SLES and Ubuntu. Since I actually work on Linux support for a hardware manufacturer, I can tell you that customers demand both - RPMs and driver disks, and in-tree support. I regularly work with Red Hat and SUSE developers on backports of the latest in-tree driver to their 'enterprise' distributions. Ubuntu uses a combination of driver backports and newer kernel versions in LTS releases. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates
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