On Aug 19, 2014, at 2:41 AM, Christian Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com> wrote:
While we can make our Mac hardware story better, we need to keep in
mind that
Apple is a pretty hostile company here in terms of running alternative operating
systems. There is absolutely no information from them on their hardware, so we are
often left with having to reverse engineer to fix bugs, which is slow and time
consuming.
My goal here instead is for us to work with more friendly hardware makers to ensure that
their hardware work well, so that we can provide Fedora users with a recommendation,
i.e. if you want things to work perfectly out of the box get a laptop from vendor X of
series Y.
This doesn't mean we shouldn't try to work as well as we can with as much
hardware as possible,
but realistically we are not in a position to guarantee more than a select set of series.
It's reasonable for Fedora development, and users, to narrow the scope for supported
hardware. Users don't want to buy or travel with a 2nd laptop just to run Fedora. This
is why I suggested the particular alternatives I suggested.
At least, Virtual Box should be an explicitly targeted and supported platform to run
Fedora on (as a guest). Despite its drawbacks, it must be easier to target than hundreds
of models, let alone highly closed and quirky hardware like Macs.
Chris Murphy