On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 09:01:52AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> I would not be at all surprised to see a response to 1) be an effort to >> define some specific hardware configurations that Workstation targets. > > Not completely by coincidence, I raised this at a Red Hat meeting this > week. Since Red Hat is our primary sponsor and all, there's long (like, > for twenty years) been the community knowledge that if you use the > laptops Red Hat buys its employees, you have better odds. Red Hat IT is > going through the process of standardizing the company on some select > models (I don't know the details yet), and I asked if we could make > that list public in Fedora — and was told "absolutely". > > So, that could be the foundation of a list of "targeted" models (I > don't want to say "supported", since that's so loaded). Obviously, this > is Red Hat bringing their particular stake to the table — or to use > Smooge's metaphor, bringing some potatoes to the soup. I doubt that > without a significant deal from Apple (which is vanishingly unlikely!) > we would include Mac support in that, though, and it's probably not > going to even include all of the PC hardware Fedora would like to run > well on, so if we want that, we do need... more veggies.
It would be interesting if we, as a Project, could reach out to other vendors and see if we can get some collaboration going around Fedora support for their hardware. Dell would seem to be a prime candidate. Their commitment to the UEFI firmware update mechanisms has been a fantastic example. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
