Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:25:12 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

Yep. I'm not that crazy about IBM/Red Hat anyhow. CentOS was my first
"I'm finally moving away from Windows" distribution. But Red Hat
swallowed them up (well after I quit using CentOS, I should add).

https://fedoramagazine.org/the-fedora-project/
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-centos

I wouldn't say Red Hat swallowed them up but they did manage to add
confusion worthy of Redmond. CentOS was downstream of RHEL. CentOS Stream
is now downstream of Fedora and upstream of RHEL with a three year major
release cycle. Rocky Linux replaced CentOS as the downstream version of
RHEL.

At one time I used Red Hat Linux (prior to CentOS or RHEL). After the
notorious gcc  2.96 release I switched to SuSE.

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html

They also had a Python version that broke some of our existing scripts.
The original Red Hat was more like today's Fedora -- close to the cutting
edge and probably not something you would want to use on a production
machine.