ShalokShalom писал(а):What i mean is: Can we use LTS Kernels, which get support by other distro`s, in terms of backported drivers ?
Yes and no.
Our kernels have other nice features (like BFQ, full preemption by default, etc) that many other systems with LTS kernels do not have yet. So, we cannot just take their kernels as is and use them in ROSA.
Another reason is, as I said above, the drivers that are important but are rarely backported by anyone, e.g. graphics. It is cheaper to update the kernel, say, from 3.10.x to 3.14.x than to backport the changes in i915 (Intel), radeon (AMD) and nouveau (NVidia), except for bug fixes. This backport would require to backport the changes in other kernel subsystems as well (drm, etc.) and would eventually become a maintenance nightmare.
This is the "no" part of the answer.
The "yes" part is, we can sometimes adapt the backported drivers from other distros, esp. if the drivers are relatively small. I did so for some Realtek's drivers in ROSA before, for example. It takes time (even if the drivers works OK in another distro!) but it may be doable.
The users sometimes help us a lot in this, for example by finding the actual code and patches for the drivers that are needed for a particular kernel, testing the drivers we build and so on. This is very much appreciated because my colleagues and I usually have many other tasks at hand.