• danielfgom
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    -661 year ago

    We really need to all stop promoting Fedora especially after what Red Hat did to the Community with CentOS and closing the code off from downstream.

    Fedora is Red Hat in disguise.

    Same goes for Canonical. They’ve decided to screw the Community and try force things on users, Communist style, so they can f right off too!

    We should all only use 100% Community based distros and projects because they need our support and break their backs working for the Community.

    For example Linux Mint, Debian, Arch, Slackware and others.

    If you use Mint like I do, switch to Debian Edition and let the developers know that’s where you prefer that focus first and then do the Ubuntu edition afterwards 👍

    • @Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Fedora is community based and “independent” from RedHat.

      In the past, they often actively decided against RHs interests and will continue doing that in the future.
      Independend in " because RH puts lots of dev power and $ into the Fedora Project, and loosing that would hurt.

      It’s a symbiotic relationship: RH provides money and developers, while we as users test for new technologies that will get used for RHEL in the future.

      The increased ressources provides us with more (also financial) security. Still, if RH somehow decides to abandon Fedora, it will still continue to live on, see Project uBlue as example.


      Also, calling everything you dislike “communist” is just dumb, there are way better words for that… Either, you use communism in the terms of “totalitarian government” like Stalin was, which is just… unfitting (Holodomor, etc.); or you don’t get that promoting community based distros is more socialist than you realize.

      Just say “I don’t like stuff forced on me from corporations like Canonical” and don’t use Ubuntu and thereof. Nobody hinders you in using what you want, and that’s great!

      • sab
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        251 year ago

        But you don’t understand - I have reputable sources telling me that Linux is communism!

      • @601error@lemmy.ca
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        121 year ago

        The reaction is funny too, because in my experience comparing communities of various distros, Fedora’s community is among the the most inviting and professionally-behaving of them.

        Personally, I am not running Fedora at the moment, but probably will when my Framework 16 arrives, since Fedora is officially supported on it. And to be honest, I find that I am making the same choices with Arch as Fedora would have made for me (aside from bootloader), so I feel that I’m wasting a bit of effort.

      • sab
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        91 year ago

        If anything the problem seems to be that it’s not communist enough.

      • ares35
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        -11 year ago

        it’s not ‘communist’.

        they (rh) can charge all they want, that is allowed. but denying those who do pay the rights granted by gpl (et al.) is not.

    • @vhalragnarok@linux.community
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      141 year ago

      Fedora is like it or not one of the most influential and important Distros out there.

      Fedora is and will always be cutting edge. They early adopt projects and technologies that absolutely become the standard.

      No other distro has this much influence. SystemD, Pipe wire, and other such projects are the norm because Fedora pushed it.

      And like it or not, Fedora will make this move very soon with Wayland. Wayland is our inevitable future, like it or not.

      I don’t see Arch, Debian, and others pushing things like this, but rather falling in line with Fedora.

      • @alt@lemmy.ml
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        51 year ago

        Fedora is and will always be cutting leading edge.

        Fixed that for you ;) .