▲ 275 ▼ People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome? (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml 343 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (4 children) Isn't red hat enough reason to not use fedora? permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] offspec@lemmy.nicknakin.com 16 points 2 years ago The short answer is no, most people are not bothered at all by RHEL's source situation or IBM as a company. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago Not really. Fedora is community run. permalink fedilink source parent [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) No, for one Red hat has every incentive to support Fedora. Also Fedora does its own thing separate from Red hat. Red hat does have some control but the community elects leadership and the elected leaders are what control the project direction. Also Fedora has a lot of volunteer package maintainers that would stop working if there was a hostile take over. Notice that the community has left Ubuntu which used to be the community go to. They no longer have a large community working on projects and maintaining software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago thanks for the clarification. I just recently got into linux and don't know much, but as i was researching Fedora, that's what i came across. Which is a pretty big turn off for a newcomer migrating from windows and wanting to get away from big corporations. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago Red hat I can live with. The problem is IBM. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] offspec@lemmy.nicknakin.com 16 points 2 years ago The short answer is no, most people are not bothered at all by RHEL's source situation or IBM as a company. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago Not really. Fedora is community run. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) No, for one Red hat has every incentive to support Fedora. Also Fedora does its own thing separate from Red hat. Red hat does have some control but the community elects leadership and the elected leaders are what control the project direction. Also Fedora has a lot of volunteer package maintainers that would stop working if there was a hostile take over. Notice that the community has left Ubuntu which used to be the community go to. They no longer have a large community working on projects and maintaining software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago thanks for the clarification. I just recently got into linux and don't know much, but as i was researching Fedora, that's what i came across. Which is a pretty big turn off for a newcomer migrating from windows and wanting to get away from big corporations. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago thanks for the clarification. I just recently got into linux and don't know much, but as i was researching Fedora, that's what i came across. Which is a pretty big turn off for a newcomer migrating from windows and wanting to get away from big corporations. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago Red hat I can live with. The problem is IBM. permalink fedilink source parent
