On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 02:31 +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > > As a project, how can we improve the current entry level to new > > companies wanting support for their devices? > > Is the backports archive not sufficient for this? I see it doesn't > contain mesa backports at this point and probably other hardware > enablement, but that could be fixed.
I wouldn't recommend enabling backports by default for pre-installed systems as using backports is something a bit fiddly (temporarily uninstallable packages, sometimes extra pinning to pull in additional packages or manual intervention is needed, ...). Ubuntu seems to offer newer kernel and graphics drivers as separate packages in the main archive instead, see [1]. I remember support for new hardware in stable releases to be a general problem, especially short before a new release when the kernel in stable already ~2 years out. Currently I no longer administrate desktop systems with stable, but when I did so in the past it was sometimes a problem to fully support recent hardware. Ansgar [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack