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Author here, I don't necessarily think they need an in-house kernel dev, but it wouldn't hurt. Mainly they need someone familiar with the ecosystem that knows
by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Author here, I don't necessarily think they need an in-house kernel dev, but it wouldn't hurt. Mainly they need someone familiar with the ecosystem that knows how upstream works, knows how to interact with distros, knows how to do some kernel debugging themselves, etc. Hiring a kernel dev makes sense because they'd already have those skills and can help out on the firmware side for Framework as well.
Realistically it looks to me like they need a reasonably technical desktop Linux user with social skills and anything else is a bonus, but I have no idea what skills they have internally
- noirbot 4y agoI'm not even sure that would help - they've got devs from the Fedora and Elementary teams who are openly posting guides and claiming they're working to ensure compatibility and my experience running both OS's has been... flaky at best, and this was on the 11th Gen CPU that evidently works better than the current model. Fedora definitely is doing the best, but audio, mic, and webcam all barely/randomly functioned, and a stiff breeze made the graphics driver crash. Arch, Ubuntu, PopOS, Elementary and LMDE all purport to work, but half of them wouldn't even install properly as documented, and the ones that did had just as many or more errors and crashes as Fedora. I'm on LMDE right now and Cinnamon crashes 50% of the time I try to change workspaces. It's gotta just be something amazingly wrong with their hardware choices. I've been full-time running Linux on my desktop for over a year and had more issues in an afternoon with my Framework than with a year of that.