Re: F35 Change: "Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:58 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "Fedora" is the name of our project. Our general-purpose Linux distribution is "Fedora Linux". Let's refer to it that way in the OS itself.
>
> Does Fedora have some other product? A dessert topping? A floor wax?
> Perhaps a hip new dance choreography, taking the world by storm? Is it
> recognizable as a distinct trademarked item?
>

Fedora actually *has* other things branded Fedora today, and may do so
for more things in the future. They don't have the opportunity to get
attention because our ability to present ourselves beyond the Linux
distribution sucks.

> Overall, ust..... no. Deliberately breaking every ansible, chef, or
> other deployment tools that check /etc/os-release for a consistent
> operating system reference name is not a benefit to anyone.

Ansible uses ID and VERSION_ID, which are not changing, so this will
have no impact there.




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