[GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

[Russell Reiter]

Hey Phoronix got me through some kind of puzzling stuff relatively
unscathed. I just liked some of the more pointed comments from this
article, like its either RPM and reboot or Flatpak from the cloud.

I never personally used MS much past dos 6.2. I think thats because I got a
late start in computing and was exposed to Linux early on. I think I joined
tlug in 95 or 96 and settled into Red Hat. So like most people, I poke fun
at the things that scare me, like having to learn a whole new OS updating
mechanisim. Or having to fudge rpm packages into apt updates.

Cheers

Russell

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banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young,
marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable,
buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.” F. P. Dunne

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 10:36 AM Dhaval Giani, <dhaval.giani at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 6:43 AM Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
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>> This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the
>> internal chaos thats leading up to this.
>>
>> "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan
>> noted. It says it right there. That may explain quite a lot, not just about
>> RHEL’s direction but also Fedora’s. We see more vendor tie-in/lock-in, more
>> software patents (monopoly) and not much of real value."
>>
>> IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim
>> Whitehurst Isn’t Even Using GNU/Linux | Techrights
>>
>> http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/red-hat-layoffs/
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>
> I was once reading that site and it accused Greg kh and Sasha Levin of
> being Microsoft stooges. I knew enough about it then. (Fun bit I think he
> reads it for entertainment to see what they will come with next).
>
> Seriously, even phoronix is a serious news site compared to that one.
>
> Dhaval
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