On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 08:27:03AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 09:00:17PM -0400, William Oliver wrote:
I just read this in The Register -- that RH is deprecating KDE in
RHEL. As a long time fan of KDE, I'm a bit saddened. Is this planned
for Fedora as well?
Red Hat doesn't make decisions for Fedora.
Legally that may be correct. But who's the main sponsor for Fedora? [1]
And usually the guy who pays for the orchestra decides for the tunes
that are played. Correct?
That said: also, no, there is no such plan. As long as people are interested
in working on it, there will be a KDE desktop option in Fedora.
The people "working on it", you write. I note the difference to people
"working with it" ... ;)
Plus:
As Fedora is more or less directly linked to RHEL [2] - what financial
sense does it make for Redhat to support the work on KDE if even now
already RHEL deprecates KDE?
Release notes for RHEL 7.6:
"KDE has been deprecated
KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE), which has been provided as an
alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment has been
deprecated. A future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will
no longer support using KDE instead of the default GNOME desktop
environment." [3]
Clearly: Redhat/Fedora without support for KDE on Fedora will probably
risk to lose lots of its Fedora users to other OS's. So the enterprise
perhaps might want to be a little more explicit for their future
support of KDE in upcoming Fedora versions - provided they really want
these users to keep using Fedora.
Wolfgang
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[1] https://getfedora.org/sponsors
[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/articles/relationship-between-fedora-and-rhel
[3] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/7.6_release_notes/
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