On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 14:00 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 16/01/2019 13.45, Liam Proven wrote:
If you are running leading-edge hardware, and for it you need a leading-edge kernel etc., then openSUSE already has an answer: it is Tumbleweed.
I can't agree with that, sorry. The main distribution should work on any hardware that I can buy currently at the shop, and not force me to use "experimental" distribution.
For instance, the other day I was trying to help someone on Usenet with a network that would not work on Leap but did on Ubuntu, out of the box.
That's unfortunate, sure. Which Ubuntu did you test? To be fair against
Leap, it should have been 18.04.x, not 18.10.
As you know, Leap 15.1 is already in preparation and will come with
lots of important backports. The big benefit you have from using Leap
is that you get the stabilization work that SUSE is doing for SLES. The
focus is more on stability than on being on the cutting edge, if you
want to put it that way. That's how Leap is currently set up.
That said, there are repos from which you could pull a more recent
kernel for Leap if you're having issues with recent hardware, and
that's what I'd recommend.
Martin
PS: Hasn't it been that way always? If you try to run Linux with the
latest hardware, you're up to some adventure. That's mostly true for
any distro, and is caused by the way the industry works (sadly).
--
Dr. Martin Wilck