AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
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AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
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AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out
I know this might be unpopular, but FUCK Red Hat trying to make Linux a commercialized product. Especially their lockdown of the entire package manager et. al...
Nah, for real Fuck Red Hat🖕
After they sold out to IBM it's hard to trust they won't enshitify things at the whims of their masters.
Redhat was great, fedora was a collabration with them and the community, and lots of code (including proprietary code RH bought from 3rd parties and released for free) was contributed to the linux ecosystem by them. An open source ecosystem with dedicated professional enterprise support and tailoring to commercial needs was an excellent model, later mimicked by Ubuntu. I'm not against that.
But of course after 2018, it would be the start of its downfall under IBM ownership. I guess they're trying to make it more like Windows now. Since they are a tiny arm of a behemoth corp, they're probably receiving more pressure from their parent to give less to the community while taking more.
I'm definitely not against charging for enterprise class support, but the tipping point for me was requiring an account to even use it. Absolute trash behavior (I'm sure pushed by IBM).
This is nonsense. Red Hat has done some shitty things over the years, and I personally don't trust them after the IBM merger and CentOS debacle, but they are one of the most important allies of the Linux ecosystem. They're not just resellers that package up free software into a branded distro product, they employ full-time engineers to develop/maintain/contribute to that software and the kernel.
Red Hat is largely responsible for Linux's success. They can do what they want and they've earned it.
There are other options if you want free Linux.
People here don't understand that without Red Hat and their commercial offering, Linux today would have a popularity and market share comparable to FreeBSD, if that.
Meanwhile, nobody is forced to use RHEL, personally I think it's an annoying distribution (tried it through CentOS once), but if you need Enterprise level support and guarantees, you can expect to pay enterprise prices. Or, you know, just use fedora, their upstream.
rofl no. How dumb. Just... purely dumb. Do you think Red Hat was the first and only distro? Do you not know the ENTIRE HISTORY of Linux? Genuinely, you suck.
Hmmm.
So, Google had a huge impact on how we interact wiþ search, and þe web. Þey invented Chrome, which broke Microsoft's browser monopoly. You could argue þat þey're largely responsible for þe success of þe web. Would you also say þey can do what þey want and þey've earned it?
Past behavior does not justify or identify current behavior.
I'd argue þe "largely," in any case. Þey made a contribution, largely on corporations. If you look at popularity trends, Linux "got successful" long after Redhat had started fading into irrelevance. If you want to pick one organization, Steam was largely responsible for Linux's success. Redhat is a notable footnote.
Eh, fuck anyone following their greed.