Hi Luke, and list...
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 03:04 -0500, Luke L wrote:
> I suggested at least a year ago that modifications be made to the
> development and maintenance schedule for releases, such as 6 month
> lifetimes for non-LTS releases, and using LTS-1 releases as the base
> for LTS instead of
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 07:14 +, Alex Cockell wrote:
> For example - is new hardware support regularly SRU'd back into the
> current LTS release, after decent QA?
Yes for kernel modules:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-backports-modules-hardy
I'm not sure how X.org drivers are handled
As it is kinda issue I have always raised, I think biggest problem is
inconsistent hardware support. Not poor, but inconsistent. Hardware
section is where most regressions shows their ugly heads. But this
require bigger, more coordinated effort between distros and kernel
developers.
It is also bad
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Alex Cockell wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> First of all - I am your putative end-user. I bought my Thinkpad R61i
> from Linux Emporium with standard 8.04 Desktop preinstalled (off
> Canonical's repos - not a downstream version like Mint or Dell's own),
> and only use sof
Hi folks,
First of all - I am your putative end-user. I bought my Thinkpad R61i
from Linux Emporium with standard 8.04 Desktop preinstalled (off
Canonical's repos - not a downstream version like Mint or Dell's own),
and only use software out of Canonical's official repos. I'm also going
to be V
