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Red Hat / Fedora drama? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

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[–] Grass 1 points 1 year ago

I recently started using a fedora based distro. Specifically bazzite which is one of the read only root distros and a drop in replacement for steam os on deck and PC. In the grand scheme of things I don't really see the read hat stuff changing much. Canonical does shit the community at large doesn't like too but people keep using Ubuntu and it's deranged and deformed babies. I mainly used arch(, btw) for a long time but I really don't have any attachments to any particular distro and can switch at any time, like I have recently for consistency between my main computers and steam deck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In the process of feeling out mx Linux and endeavor... But don't necessarily know enough about the red hat stuff to even have an opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Their product offering are worthless to me now than before.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

No matter how tempting, I wouldn't use Fedora since it ships with opt-out telemetry.

Red Hat has a right to shoot itself in the foot as many times as it wants. Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Oracle will gladly take over their business without skipping a beat.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Stopping support to competitors is reasonable (quite rude to give short notice), on the other hand, violating the GLP license is unacceptable. Red had has definitely lost my trust.

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