Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

Posted Mar 10, 2011 3:56 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules by airlied
Parent article: Enterprise distributions and free software

The featureset of no major regressions + new HW support is something people think is worth paying for, community distros don't cater to this market at all.

Actually, Debian does add hardware support, particularly for hardware that may be required during installation. However, we aren't nearly as thorough as Red Hat in doing this, mostly because we don't have the resources for regression-testing driver changes.

I have been meaning to propose some sort of hardware partner program for Debian kernel and X maintainers to work with hardware vendors (or upstream maintainers with good collections of hardware) on testing driver updates. But I think it would have to be somewhat different from commercial partner programs.

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