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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Red Hat shitstorm (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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Everyone is getting jerked around by IBM and now Oracle adding to the drama

Meanwhile my servers are stable and debian development keeps quietly chugging along with minimal noise

Just wanted to say how much i love the debian project and all the contributors

People should recommend debian more

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[–] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

IBM did no favors here. We pay for Red Hat support on front facing stuff, but used Scientific Linux and then CentOS for over a decade on our backend stuff.

We have already been testing Ubuntu since the CentOS Stream thing caught us off guard. Now with the attacks on downstream players, we will not be paying for equivalent Red Hat licenses. We can't afford it.

Funding is down. The global economy has been in a downturn for a while, and now the pandemic "free money" boost is done. Our budgets are shrinking.

IBM decided to squeeze their clients at the wrong time. It was a mistake. We are looking outside RHEL and its derivatives for the first time in over 2 decades.