Feature changed by: Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh) Feature #311441, revision 3 Title: Build a lobby to make hardware vendors more Linux friendly (open build service) openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We all have some gadget with USB cable not seen by openSUSE (for example GPS). * Could we offer to the hardware makers some room on the build service (yes, including for proprietary software). * could we track the Microsoft work. I'm nearly sure that Microsoft push hard to forgive hardware vendors from releasing Linux drivers. Could we make any survey to make this better known? This is exactly where a cross distribution could be good: we all have the same problem. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to be equal on the hardware race + Discussion: + #1: Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh) (2011-03-07 19:46:25) + What specific USB device is not supported on Linux? And no, we are not + going to put closed source stuff on the build service, all USB drivers + HAVE to be open source for Linux, it's been that way for a very long + time now. + We need specifics, as far as I can tell we are more than "equal" with + Windows and other operating systems, we support USB 3.0 and a much + wider range of devices than anyone else does. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311441

Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #311441, revision 5 Title: Build a lobby to make hardware vendors more Linux friendly (open build service) - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: Not feasible, openSUSE cannot include proprietary + software that is non-redistributable. Hardware support is an ongoing + issue and there are already several organisations that work to lobby + for better support. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We all have some gadget with USB cable not seen by openSUSE (for example GPS). * Could we offer to the hardware makers some room on the build service (yes, including for proprietary software). * could we track the Microsoft work. I'm nearly sure that Microsoft push hard to forgive hardware vendors from releasing Linux drivers. Could we make any survey to make this better known? This is exactly where a cross distribution could be good: we all have the same problem. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to be equal on the hardware race Discussion: #1: Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh) (2011-03-07 19:46:25) What specific USB device is not supported on Linux? And no, we are not going to put closed source stuff on the build service, all USB drivers HAVE to be open source for Linux, it's been that way for a very long time now. We need specifics, as far as I can tell we are more than "equal" with Windows and other operating systems, we support USB 3.0 and a much wider range of devices than anyone else does. #2: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) (2011-03-07 20:12:04) (reply to #1) Linux supports any mass storage devices, but most GPS and cell phone do use proprietary software for map updates or phone sync. I *know* that we can't do opensource soft for most of them, that's why I think of some sort of *coordinated* lobbying effort (individual efforts goes nowhere). I just connected my Samsung S cell phone. Was seen as imaging interface, but Digikam couldn't open it -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311441