Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

[Posted April 28, 2020 by corbet]

Christian Schaller writes about the desktop improvements found in Fedora 32 — and beyond. "We spent a lot of time and energy over the last 6 years to get to where we are now, putting in place a lot of the basic building blocks needed to make Linux a great desktop operating system. And it feels great that just as we kick of the new line of Lenovo laptops running Fedora we are also entering a new phase of development where we can move beyond getting our basic infrastructure in place, but we can really start taking advantage of it to rapidly improve the experience we are providing even more. A good example is the Firefox work mentioned above, where we finally could move on from ‘make it work with Wayland and PipeWire, to ‘lets take advantage of these new pieces to make Firefox on Linux better’."

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

Posted Apr 29, 2020 13:11 UTC (Wed) by rgb (guest, #57129) [Link] (4 responses)

Speaking of Thunderbolt support: Anyone knows why EGPU unplugging is not supported yet?

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

Posted Apr 29, 2020 21:40 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link] (2 responses)

Because it's hard and nobody has written code to do it?

Any suggestions for funding that code to be written? :-)

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

Posted Apr 30, 2020 6:36 UTC (Thu) by sce (subscriber, #65433) [Link] (1 responses)

Speaking of which; does anyone have any suggestions for where to go if one wants to donate to e.g. kernel development? I mean it would definitely be a better use of my money than throwing it at youtubers...

(And not just development of kernel drivers, but I'm also thinking wayland, pipewire, etc.)

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

Posted Apr 30, 2020 6:58 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Bootlin did a crowdfunding campaign for some Linux kernel development, but that has finished now:

https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-crowdfunding/

You could possibly direct the money towards bounty sites, or with more money sign contracts with individual developers or companies. Some possibly useful links for that:

https://www.debian.org/consultants/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

Posted May 1, 2020 10:00 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

> Speaking of Thunderbolt support: Anyone knows why EGPU unplugging is not supported yet?

Apparently some people have managed to make it work, back in 2017:

- https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1052317652973060096
- https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1052319801656381441

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

Posted May 1, 2020 4:45 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Would be awesome to see Fedora/RedHat draining the mobile swamp too.