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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah? Redhat just backs fedora they don't own it. Fedora is completely separate and run by the community

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fedora is not a separate legal entity. Red Hat literally owns it. At one time they had considered creating a separate Fedora Foundation but did not.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Red Hat owns Fedora, just like how they owned CentOS. I think there's a risk that Red Hat will make more anti user moves going forward, and I also think that it's not worth spending time learning the "Red Hat ecosystem" now that CentOS is dead. Get away from Fedora.

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

“I think there’s a risk that Red Hat will make more anti user moves going forward,”

Fedora Stream?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know you are just joking but if Fedora Stream was a rolling release of Fedora, it might be kind of a nice distro. I guess it would be Red Hat’s answer to SUSE Tumbleweed.

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

Agree. I just feel bad for Nobara, a very good distro for gamers.