Hello, > > A shout out for Hector Martinez who has been helping me a whole bunch. > > Without his help I likely would have given up and wouldn't even be reading > > the threads on this forum. If there are more people like Hector > > (particularly in kernel, audio and graphics) let me know!
> As I become more aware of your requirements I can help find more Hectors > too :) There are more companies expecting better hardware support, this issue is not limited to Lenovo, they are willing to pay consultancy time and/or sponsor Debian events, however on volunteer premises, it has been really hard to provide adequate support for them, companies would like to have quick turn around fixes, while Debian takes ages to land something and/or to backport those changes to stable (which is the installer advertised at our debian.org website). There is a workaround by creating a consultancy and pay Debian developers, a la Debian LTS, but that has been at least controversial and, to my knowledge, no general solution has been provided. As a project, how can we improve the current entry level to new companies wanting support for their devices? Note: companies now understand they need to contribute upstream first, however that's not enough to get timely fixes to Debian. Regards -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.