• @[email protected]
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    434 months ago

    No, they only fucked CentOS, and they made RHEL proprietary last year. Since Ubuntu’s decline, Fedora basically took it’s place. It’s very stable but not extremely outdated, has great security, always supports the newest technologies like Flatpak, Wayland, Pipewire, etc., has good Desktop spins and constantly innovates. The next Fedora KDE release will even completely drop support for X11, which is a good step because it forces developers to adopt Wayland. They also have pretty good immutable spins like Silverblue, Kinoite and others. Other cool distros like Nobara and uBlue are also built on top of Fedora.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      134 months ago

      Its not really proprietary. Developers get the code, and everyone that gets the binaries also gets the code. Thats GPL compliant.

      • @[email protected]
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        154 months ago

        To quote Software Freedom Conservancy:

        For approximately twenty years, Red Hat (now a fully owned subsidiary of IBM) has experimented with building a business model for operating system deployment and distribution that looks, feels, and acts like a proprietary one, but nonetheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms.

        • @LeFantome
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          64 months ago

          To quote both of you “nevertheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms”.

          Were you trying to prove his point?

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            Obviously they comply with the GPL, otherwise they would get sued. But Red Hat acts exactly like a proprietary software company. That’s what the quote is trying to say.

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          44 months ago

          @Dehydrated this is my pet peeve everytime i try to discuss anything about linux someone interrupts me about how SOME COMPONENT is proprietary
          like yeah, the keyboard on the laptop is proprietary, so are all the ICs, come on…

          • @[email protected]
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            84 months ago

            All the hardware is proprietary. The CPU, the ME in the CPU, the chipset on the mainboard, the BIOS, the RAM and SSD controllers, the TPM and everything else. Even the damn battery controller hardware and software are proprietary. It really doesn’t matter though.

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              14 months ago

              I mean we have a monolithic kernel, with every single line of code running as root, that contains proprietary garbage. Thats even worse than Windows if you ask me, where you can see the drivers processes, which means they are seperate processes.

              I will soon compile my own kernel, because I dont really feel good with running such a bloated piece of bad code on my standard intel laptop.