On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 14:43 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
Søndag den 10. maj 2015 13:32:26 skrev Richard Brown:
On 10 May 2015 at 11:26, Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@gmail.com>
* it'll have outdated hardware support compared to any mainstream distro
Wrong - SLE Service Packs always have baked in hardware enablement, and sometimes may include full Kernel version changes. openSUSE Releases will benefit from this work.
If this were true it would mean I could go and get SLE11 with the latest servicepack and it would have hardware support comparable to openSUSE 13.2 for cheapo consumer laptops and other consumer hardware. I find that hard to believe.
Well, to be fair you would need to compare 13.2 with SLE12 because if we were using the proposed model, 13.2 would be based on SLE12 code. SLE11 SP3 would have been the base for something between 12.3 and 13.1. You also need to install all the updates and drivers that have been released over the last 2 years to enable new hardware on SLE11 SP3 base. SLE hasn't been targeted at "cheapo consumer" devices so there might be gaps in functionality. The question is - what are those gaps? and can we fill them for an openSUSE release based on the SLE code? I think these questions are difficult to answer until we get there. SLE12 is still relatively fresh code, but getting old fast (just as 13.2 is). From a kernel technology standpoint will it be good enough to last the next 18mo when we have the next opportunity for a kernel re-base? What options are their with patches and driver update packages to keep the distro usable on new hardware until that time? -Scott