On 10/30/18 3:27 AM, rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Am 2018-10-30 08:06, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.:
Yeah.....I guess that's one way to look at it.
My biggest worry? Is I've placed so much time and effort "getting to
know" Fedora and its intricacies, idiosyncrasies, its ins and
outs...dealt with ridicule on this very same list when I first
started, have "cut my teeth" on learning VERY hard lessons about
certain syntax in the Terminal and what NOT to type.......only to have
that all "taken" away from me at the whim of IBM. It just seems
unfair. I'm hoping like H3LL that the developers @ Fedora are
seriously thinking about forking "Just In Case"!? I mean they could
still use the .RPM extensions, and possibly even still pull their code
from RHEL, but at least they would be autonomous and wouldn't have to
rely on IBM's good will in order to keep on churning out what....to
me...is the best Linux distro on the planet! As I write this....I'm
eyeballing the spare ThinkPad T-410 that I've neglected since I have
Fedora running on a Dell XPS, and I'm thinking its time to get "back
to my roots" and to find a distro I can put on that device and run
without concern....I've heard some decent things about this "Pop-OS"
which comes with System76's hardware. Maybe I'll give that a
spin......then like I had said before...there's always Debian plain
vanilla...with maybe MATE or Cinnamon?.....or else its going to have
to be where I buckle down and finally learn all there is to know about
LFS and Arch Linux and then move on to one of those...(God!.....at
47!?....its like how can I POSSIBLY start over again!?...) and THIS is
the kind of turmoil that ensues when a corporation buys a fully
functioning open course company!
I think you seriously underestimate the amount of influence and sheer
man-power RedHat brings to Linux - and IBM, too.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2017/10/2017-linux-kernel-report-highlights-developers-roles-accelerating-pace-change/
There's a reason RHEL is an enterprise-distribution - and Debian
et.al. aren't (and never will, outside their niches).
RedHat writes ton of code that is needed for Linux to be truly
"Enterprise" and that exists nowhere else.
The above statistics is only the kernel - but Enterprise Linux is so
much more than a kernel.
That code isn't going to write itself, nor is somebody else going to
pick up unless someone will pay the bill.
Maybe somebody can fork all the code and maintain it for a while - but
to stay relevant, there must be further development, a roadmap ...
Sure, there's Google and a couple of other companies - but they really
only write for themselves and as much as people try cargo-culting
them, most companies aren't Google and their use-case hardly matches
anyone else's.
I still remember when SAP announced that their engineers had ported
their ERP to Linux - a sparetime-project at the beginning - and they
were making it a tier 1 platform.
That was over 20 years ago.
Linux has come a long way.
True. It has, but still as another poster stated?
"/_But it is also entirely possible that CEntOS 8 will be the last one
to come out. Before a corporate agenda will "merge" it with their
general philosophy. _//_
_//__//_
_//_To me it looks pathetic that a lively profitable entity with an
entirely different corporate psychology is consumed by big
conglomerates. What for? _//_
_//__//_
_//_By the way I am 60 and been following Linux/Linus since Kernel 0.99.
Some time before RedHat appeared strong on the scene."_//_
_//__//_
_//_Andreas - 10.2018 _/
It might not be a "PROBABLE" scenario...but its is a POSSIBLE one! What
would that entail? Just because Red Hat is a strong contributor to the
code now....if "Big Daddy" says to pull the plug....who's to refuse
them?...they OWN Red Hat now! And this was my concern, at least as its
own entity, RHEL had the luxury of whom to do business with and whom to
reject / turn down. Now? They will be "goaded"? into playing with
whomever the headmaster SAYS they're to play with! I dunno....maybe I'm
thinking about it too much but it just doesn't bode well when a company
gets bought out with nary a resistance. I guess only time will tell.
EGO Ii
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