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[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Jesse Keating schrieb:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 10:44, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Sure. But we IMHO have regular big updates of the most important
>> criticical system software already: the kernel. We have good hardware
>> support due to that and Fedora in this area is much better than other
>> distributions. We IMHO should enhance this advantage and also regularly
>> update other parts of the distribution that are crucial for hardware
>> support -- like for example gutenprint.
> This usually comes down to the maintainer's choice.  If they don't want to do 
> it, then it won't happen.  If they do, and the impact isn't severe, then they 
> will.

Sure. But I think it looks a bit odd to outsiders to have good hardware
support in Fedora Core on one side (kernel, sane, often Xorg) but old
drivers that lack support for new hardware on the other (gimp-print).

That a point were a imaginable Fedora Core Steering Commitee (or maybe
even FAB) should jump in to get one "look and feel" out to the users of
Fedora.

The target and common "look and feel" I'd like to see is: "Fedora Core
provides better hardware support for newer hardware than other
distributions because it often updates kernel and userland packages that
contain drivers." Why that? We are not that far away from this goal --
kernel and sane are often updated already; we just need to do the same
for printer-drivers and Xorg (the latter at least when there are no
known incompatibles like we had them this summer with nvidia, ati and
Xorg 7.1). And one of the goals of Fedora Core is to be a fast moving
distribution with up2date open-source-software.

CU
thl