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Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? (www.jeffgeerling.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

*sigh* Do I have to go abandon Fedora now too? I really hope they don't pull a CentOS on that one

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I highly doubt this would affect Fedora. Thankfully, it's community driven and self-goverened so Red Hat execs can't go and tell them what to do. (Though I don't know how many ties the Fedora council had to Red Hat)

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Please don't fuck up my beloved fedora. Kind regards.

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Wow what the hell, this is the first I'm hearing of this change. I use Rocky Linux for my server atm and I was thinking I liked it for server use quite a lot more than Fedora, but if they're going to do this then I'm going to have to jump ship unfortunately. Maybe I'll go back to Debian. Or even better, maybe I'll try using Devuan in a prod server setup for once?

    I'm super not happy to have to jump ship again though when I JUST settled into something I'm comfortable with that works near perfectly well for my usecases, after multiple years of jumping around undecided.

    E: Although I did just read that statement from the Rocky Linux team, and maybe it'll be fine? But I'm still gonna prepare to move just in case this fucks over the Rocky Linux ecosystem anyways

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's most probably IBM forcing it, but yeah it's dumb.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know about that. IBM is traditionally stupid, yeah, but they wanted Red Hat for a reason. The CentOS debacle altogether was Red Hat, not IBM, and I don't think they are doing too much day to day operational mandates for stuff like this. I would not be surprised if this was just a Red Hat thing. I know it's easy to blame IBM, but I don't think it's that simple.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    they wanted Red Hat for a reason.

    They were dying and they needed a cash cow to milk. The only way that was gonna work is if they didn't kick the cow and spoil that milk like they've kicked every cow before it. And they can't stop, so they're just kicking away.

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah fuck this move. Seems incredibly short sighted and a huge fuck you to the community.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @FrankTheHealer @REdOG I guess Debian based distros win.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is there even a Debian based distro that is up to date like Fedora, does not have snaps and does not have "Unstable" in its name?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Siduction. It is rolling release though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just checked their website and it seems like they're using debian sid packages. What's the difference between using siduction and plain debian sid, besides having a preconfigured desktop?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I never used siduction, im juat aware of its existence. I think they add some stability(=reliability) on top of sid and also keep updating packages during sid's freezes. Dont quote me on this.

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