fossrob

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Linux professional, foss and technology enthusiast.

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governa, to random
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Plane crash rates by model ✈️

https://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm

fossrob,

@governa 😱🫣

gbraad, to random
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    fossrob,

    @gbraad AFAIK there's no need, that's what OpenSuSE Leap is?

    fossrob,

    @gbraad oh right... not that I've come across 🤔

    maxamillion, to RedHat
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    Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

    https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

    fossrob,

    @maxamillion @vwbusguy I mean mistakes can happen, or maybe it was intentional but they didn't anticipate actual usage and then had to bring it back, but it's not the norm. It probably should've have happened but it doesn't mean that Red Hat is always pulling packages out from under people 🤷

    gamingonlinux, to random
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    @ivory any idea when you’ll be adding the option to mute a post?

    fossrob,

    @gamingonlinux @ivory soz 🫣

    gamingonlinux, to random
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    Re: RHEL CentOS git changes. They now make it clear their recent changes were to stop others repackaging into other distributions.

    I do get what they’re trying to say. Simply allowing others super easy access to repack doesn’t make business sense for them.

    However those two paragraph’s don’t help how they look and directly contradict each other….

    Literally goes from ”Don’t build from us you freeloaders” To “Building from others is what open source is all about”.

    https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

    fossrob,

    @gamingonlinux they don't contradict to me if taken in the context of the whole blog post.

    The first is referring to simply repackaging and rebranding a project then presenting it as your own. In other words what all this fuss is about.

    The second refers to the relationship between RedHat and Fedora, or Ubuntu and Debian. Building on, improving and contributing back.

    fossrob,

    @gamingonlinux well, the nuance (to me at least) is that just "repackaging and reusing" as is, in it's entirety without adding any value is not in the spirit of or healthy for open source.

    And in this case sadly, a lot of the RHEL clone distributions do it purely for profit. Is anyone criticizing this because they feel sorry for Oracle Linux?

    fossrob,

    @gamingonlinux well yes. It would be great if none of this were necessary though and RHEL was simply available for free (with optional paid support like Ubuntu). But let's be honest, Ubuntu is only in recent years finally starting to be profitable after more than a decade running at a loss. Would they have made it this long without a billionaire benefactor all those years? 🤷 I'd rather Red Hat remain a successful business and continue to do the good it does.

    fossrob, to RedHat

    FWIW much love to all the having a tough time (again). Not all of us are part of the pitch fork wielding mob 😔

    Appreciate you 💖

    @carlwgeorge @Conan_Kudo @itguyeric @omenos

    fossrob,

    Things I appreciate about #redhat

    In 2008 #redhat bought a company called Qumranet (they'd just had a little thing called KVM merged into the #linux kernel the year before). They also had some proprietary products. RH open sourced it all and sponsored a number of related projects. I appreciate RH for their role in #kvm #spice #ovirt #libvirt #virtmanager and saving us from having to choose between Citrix Xen and VMWare.

    #redhatappreciation

    fossrob,

    In 2014 the #centos project was struggling. CentOS was built by only a handful of people who were doing it on their own with no corporate sponsor. CentOS 6.0 was released 242 days AFTER #rhel and CentOS 6.1 a whopping 204 days after.

    I appreciate that #redhat offered the key members employment, provided some sponsorship of the project and tried (for 7Y) to turn it into a positive for both RH and the community.

    In 2014 CentOS 7.0 was only 27 days behind RHEL.

    #redhatappreciation

    fossrob,

    End 2020 #redhat discontinued #centos. They'd given it a go but it wasn't working for them.

    I appreciate RH for not abandoning the project and leaving it to it's fate, instead launching CentOS Stream.

    They communicated it all poorly, CS8 was a bit of a mess for a long time being upended mid life cycle, but today we have #rhel engineers working in the open, and a free enterprise class distro that's as close to RHEL as to make no difference for most use cases.

    #redhatappreciation

    fossrob,

    #fedora

    I really really really appreciate #redhat for #fedora because that's what I run at home, for work and on my wife's laptop. And it's amazing.

    (On that note I especially appreciate #silverblue and @jorge for ublue).

    fossrob,

    @ljrk it's probably not a fair comment at all now, but at the time (early 2000's) it only supported paravirtualization so the guest needed to be "aware" that it was being virtualized. In the case of Linux that meant a special Xen kernel so only certain Linux distributions could be virtualized. There was also no running Windows guests on it. It made my life as a Linux consultant more difficult 🫣

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