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Dependency hell is why I became a Mandrake and later a Mandriva user. URPMI was groundbreaking. I didn't give up Mandriva until near the end, when I jumped ship to Ubuntu.
mageia is still around
What is so great about RH? When i had opportunity to use it, it look so bad mostly because lack of current/decent software in repo. Maybe their support is amazing?
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Ditching Unity + Mir, and returning to Gnome. Convergence is good. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
Canonical are ditching Mir? I must have missed this one. Was this discussed here? Page won't load for me but my first thought was this was a poor taste April fools ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631
Can't find a cached version of the actual ubuntu article though.
Edit: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6qrnN...
No mention of mir though?
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What are you referring to?
Ditching Unity + Mir, and returning to Gnome. Convergence is good. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
It's this mindset that makes me want to support Red Hat as a company. As good as the Fedora 25 experience has been for me, I'd love to see Linux laptop vendors (especially Dell) make it an installed option soon. Maybe CentOS laptops would make more sense for them from a sheer "stability for support sake" experience.
I'd love if CentOS / RHEL would become Fedora LTS.
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I am pretty sure they've been in the black, but not by much, for some time.
It was losing tens of millions just a few years ago to try to get into mobile. The financials are also private. Doesn't leave me much to go on. :)
More than 15 years ago, I worked for a Linux services company that competed with Red Hat. We sometimes saw them or were invited to see them rather negatively (as the competition), and I particularly remember that an ad agency that wanted our business once shipped us a box containing a burnt red hat (!). Time has shown that Red Hat really knows what they're doing, on many different levels, and they're the most success…
> they're the most successful free software business in history. Aren't they also the only successful free software business in history? Asking seriously, since I am not aware of any other examples. And I suppose it depends on your definitions of success, of course.
Oracle is the only multi billion dollar database-centric company. Faceboom is the only successful social media (twitter is micro blogging or whatever you call it) Microsoft is the only desktop blah blah Amazon blah blah
That is a result of being early, acquire many small successful companies ex. Kvm, ceph, Ansible,... And being really truely opensource.
No one else is truely opensource, ex. Mysql used to sell exceptions and prosperity features instead of selling Enterprise support.
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Ditching Unity + Mir, and returning to Gnome. Convergence is good. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
Canonical are ditching Mir? I must have missed this one. Was this discussed here? Page won't load for me but my first thought was this was a poor taste April fools ;)
I checked the date of the post really carefully as well. That is certainly a change of direction.