support for latest (radeon) hardware
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Jan 24 19:20:58 UTC 2009
On 24.01.2009 20:03, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 19:23 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> * bugs OTOH happen and they need to get fixed sooner or later anyway,
>> as they otherwise will bite the user with the next or overnext Fedora
>> release, as Fedora users have to update to it sooner or later anyway if
>> they want to get security fixes for their distro.
>>
>> Please note that above description for the second point leaves out a lot
>> of details; discussing those here IMHO doesn't make much sense, hence
>> I'll try to keep away from discussing that point more, because the real
>> question simply is:
>>
>> How to keep existing people happy while at the same time get drivers for
>> new hardware out to the users as soon as possible, to make sure that
>> they can run Linux/Fedora(¹)?
You didn't really answer the question and went into a different
direction. But I'll follow there for this mail:
> Well there are really two types of users. Those that want to run
> experimental builds of software and help in the bug finding and fixing
> of our software, and those that don't.
What I'm up to: The latter group wants to have support for their
hardware as well and that's what we need a solution for.
Cu
knurd
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