And to think, I once felt sorry for red hat because their symbol had been co-opted by maga.
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Isn't Systemd a Redhat thing? Either way, I should probably migrate to Artix...
The meme is poignant, but it would be nice if you accompanied with a non-meme source, so people can be informed with factual information.
Thanks. This at least gives some context.
I like fedora. Unless anyone have source of how Red Hat is making money off of users or technically compromised somehow, I say we're using up their resources for free.
With Red Hat Device Edge Lockheed Martin is leading the infusion of cutting-edge commercial technology into military capabilities that deliver advanced solutions to our customers. Justin Taylor, Vice President, F-22 technology, Lockheed Martin
Red Hat is the MIC linux
Free QA but that's pretty much it. Not directly making money but worth noting the benefit IMO.
Fedora rocks tho you do you
Redhat is just part of IBM now, so even more baggage on top.
Yet another reason I've been a Debian user for so long.
Would IBM ever do anything bad?
Wait how does using fedora support redhat? You don't pay for fedora. They get nothing.
Its RHEL's testing ground... Quite literally Fedora is the upstream.
Other then free beta testing?
Wild. How many Israelis still have IBM tattoos?
Say what now?
The number tattoos from the holocaust directly tie into early 'database software' aka tabulation machines developed by IBM. IBMs NYC HQ was involved the entire time from prewar census to ghettos to concentration camps. And then they made your first PC.
MY first PC, or THE first PC? Cuz a couple of years ago, IEEE recognized the Datapoint as manufacturing the first PC.
The statistically average persons first PC. My school didn't have a datapoint computer lab. The Amiga 500 didn't put a computer repair shop in every town. IBM was on top when computers were being put everywhere. And even when they weren't, "Dude, you're getting an IBM clone."
My first PC was zilog based. But yep, IBM 100% helped Nazi Germany catalog and track their prisoners on the way to the ovens. But like so many companies they've been allowed to whitewash their image.
Yep, they're basically the UIDs from IBM's system, or something pretty close to that.
Whoa, thanks.
Commodore 64 gang, by the way :-D
Commodore 64 gang
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They made the Amiga 500??!?
Amiga, the superior computing platform of the 20th century
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They made Fisher-Price My First Computer?
How have I never heard of this?
Because IBM would strongly prefer you not know about it, and/or you haven't played the wikipedia 'how many clicks to Hitler' game enough.
... fingers crossed someone doesn't bring up some shit about Debian ...
No company behind it, the DSC/DFSG has been around for around 30 years now, its operated through the non-profit SPI for just as long, and important to note it was Bruce Perens who made the first draft of the DSC.
I think the drama in Debian has historically been more on the geekery side than anything else, and should continue to be the case for a looooong time.
This is not as bad, but...
There's a package in Debian called "fortune-mod" that contains "offensive jokes" - racism, homophobia, misogyny etc. They refused to remove it because free speech or whatever.
If the package is not malware, I actually would prefer the repo maintainers fight to keep it there. I do not want the software repo to be censored. If I don't like a piece of software, I can avoid using it.
The package is not shipped with Debian. The package is not shown to a user anywhere in Debian. A user has to go out of their way to acquire the package.
I thought this was hilarious. I digged into this. I agree with the author. Honestly if one doesn't like the quote generated, one can generate a new quote and move on. Author addressed this years ago here https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fortune-mod/-/raw/master/Offensive
Then again, I'm sure someone made an offensive free version of this.
Came here to post about their NSA development, but your comment tops it off.
So the hat was red all of this time from blood then?
I used to think that the worst part about using Fedora was seeing all the m'lady memes when searching to a fix to your issue without paying Redhat...guess that's the second worse thing now.
Well that's really dissapointing to learn when having multiple fedora installations at home...
(Other family member`s desktop and my own server)
The thing is I kinda want SELinux on my server. Hm SUSE is German which does not bring much hope. Probably worth checking.
(Am I crazy enough to use Gentoo on my server as well?)
Maybe you can answer this, but why do you want SELinux? When I was on openSUSE, I felt like whatever that thing was doing was preventing me from just turning my computer on and playing some games. Proton-GE ESPECIALLY.
Now, on Fedora (yay at the above news..) I don't have that issue any longer. no idea what is installed on Fedora, but it doesn't give me nearly as many of those issues that openSUSE did.
I think openSUSE is awesome, but for someone like me who doesn't fully understand all the little things going on in the OS, a default install of openSUSE was much worse off on my system config than Fedora was.
Well mainly security and curiosity. Same kind of curiosity that got me daily driving Gentoo I assume.
Its a public facing server after all so if one of several software gets compromised at least theres a one last safety measure that can prevent a considerable amount of damage.
Fedora comes with SELinux also, but clearly with a better set of policies