What you are referring to as Red Hat is in fact IBM/Red Hat, or as I've recently come to calling it, IBM + Red Hat
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What do you get when you merge a company with IBM?
IBM.
You get what you fuckin deserve!
Annoying commercials about "the cloud" and some robot they built 30 years ago.
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Hope that backfire on IBM.
Yes, it will but so slowly and further down the road, nobody at IBM will see the connection. When Fedora (or desktop Linux in general) will be slightly less appealing to people who in 10 years will become the decision makers at IT departments, it'll weaken the position of Linux and in turn the commercial support providers.
Guess, everyone who does not yet own a Steam Deck needs to get one because Valve seems to be the biggest commercial proponent of consumer GNU/Linux.
All these corporations looking to kill off their own relevance. They all in the same death cult or something?
They all in the same death cult or something?
Yeah, capitalism it seems like.
I guess asking for sustainable business practices is too much to ask for from the system. "Sufficient" money is never good enough. Gotta try to get all the money, even if it means burning down everything one holds dear.
Hell, the system is literally willing to burn down the whole world in pursuit of more. The more you think about it, the more senseless it all becomes.
Never forget, in a capitalist system, every firm will always eventually try to get as many people as possible, to pay as much as possible, for as little as possible.
Enshitification
It's called enshittification - Cory Doctorow invented the term.
All these corporations looking to kill off their own relevance. They all in the same death cult or something?
IBM uses mostly Windows in house, so they are not interested in desktop Linux and apparently then nobody else would be either.
this is bad
Thanks for linking the actual article!
Honestly, they just keep lowering the value paying them brings. Execs barely want to pay them in the first place, why would I as the engineer or IT solutioner care about putting money towards support if they keep abandoning projects...
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Farewell, Red Hat. Thanks for all your good work throughout the years. Sucks you sold out to IBM
Well, Fedora and Gnome were embraced and extended by IBM.
You know what's next now.
Yep, Ubuntu will fork all of these, then trash them, introduce their alternatives, then drop support in 5 years.
Introducing unity 2
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This was my thought exactly. Work is a RHEL shop and I had settled on Fedora after distro hopping. Ubuntu was for the new guys getting into Linux.
My self hosted services were all CentOS and more recently Rocky/Alma. After the shenanigans RH pulled to make their source harder to obtain, I'm working through my personal ansible scripts to get up on Debain. I'll never go back to RHEL or the forks.
Fedora is freaking amazing. Fresh & stable software, super clean UI, huge community...
Debian has stable but old software (kernel and packages), clean UI, huge community. But it's harder to use, since you have to make a few more manual steps to leave it at where Fedora comes as default.
Fedora will always have a place as long as Red Hat stops shitting on it.
I don't mind the old kernel, packages, etc. However, one of my biggest problems with debain so far is that SELinux isn't installed by default..... I've installed and enabled it but it doesn't seem to let me SSH in. I'm still troubleshooting but its annoying to have to fight with it.
I'd love to continue to use Fedora but I have no faith in RedHat. They don't give a shit about their community anymore, including Fedora, so I believe its just a matter of time before that's dead too.
Fedora will probably get forked by the companies supporting enterprise Linux.
I am even more concerned about GNOME, since that will affect the majority of Linux distros or spins.
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Welp.. Gnome will lost many of their contributor/maintainer.. Well, at least KDE folks is backed by Novell(SUSE) and XFCE is purely maintained by community already. It seems Linux desktop is still safe. lol
But this was it's year!
SUSE was an independent company before, during, and after its 5 years under Novell. That's a weird attribution to Novell when SUSE has always been the contributing company to Linux.
Oh, sorry.. I thought they are one from the start.. thx for correcting me.
Corpo shills were never on the team pleb... just so happened it was good for them to do something that benefited FOSS. Now that is over, it seems.
power-profiles-daemon is now archived? Dammit, that was a big one for Fedora.
I am a little concerned to step in front of the hate machine here but this feels like a continued move away from app dev to more infrastructural stuff as previously announced by them. If so, I am all for it as not everybody is going to use Rhythmbox or LibreOffice but we can all use HDR and other core tech that Red Hat will develop instead. They are one of the few Linux companies that can fund these large, technical projects. Having them working on apps feels like a waste of their engineering potential.
But if they are moving towards infrastructure I doubt HDR will be on their radar - or any desktop related technology for that matter
There is no Way this is going to improve anything Red Hat's side
why did you link to a kbin view of another post right here on !linux@lemmy.ml ?
It happened before (on reddit), it will happen again (on Lemmy).
So say we all.
Can someone tell me what this means for fedora?
Very little I suspect. These specific packages may evolve less quickly but will still be available. None of them were Fedora specific.
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