Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On 2025-04-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

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

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

By "swallowed up" I mean Red Hat became the owner of CentOS. The trademarks
were transferred to Red Hat and Red Hat employs CentOS' main developers.
What was CentOS ended in 2021. Now they call it CentOS Stream and, as you
say, it's now a distribution that fits between Fedora and Red Hat. Kind of a
"beta" of Red Hat. When I used CentOS it was basically a Red Hat clone with
branding removed.

I know about Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux (and Oracle Linux) but Red Hat has
made it harder to clone Red Hat now. (Although I think Rocky and AlmaLinux
have figured out how to get around this.)

At one time I used Red Hat Linux (prior to CentOS or RHEL). After the
notorious gcc  2.96 release I switched to SuSE.
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https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
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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.

It looks to me like Red Hat wants to try to control the future direction of
Linux. Thankfully there are lots of other alternatives.

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