IBM acquires Red Hat • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

There cannot be a single Red Hat employee outside of RH's board of directors that thinks this would be a good move for Red Hat.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by crb002 » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

This will only work out if IBM beefs up it's data centers to clone AWS (Lambda, Batch, S3, RDS, SQS, Fargate), gobbles Netifly, then puts mainframe DB2 in the cloud next to commodity servers. Also needs to open the ZOS toolchain and get a modern syntax and tooling around COBOL.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by Thomashuet » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

dagw wrote: post #18

ausjke wrote: post #7

The only positive side I can think of is that, Microsoft did not buy RH before IBM does. This is a threat to OSS, sadly. Maybe Google or Amazon will buy Canonical soon?

Maybe Google or Amazon will buy Canonical soon? What makes you think that would be a good thing?

What makes you think the poster thinks of it as a good thing?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by exabrial » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

Please no.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by chris_wot » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

Oh shit. This is one of the worst things I can imagine.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by exabrial » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

Can the shareholders block this somehow?

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

#37

Post by mixmastamyk » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

gtycomb wrote: post #24

I use Fedora Linux on my laptop. What does this mean for the Fedora Project? Any thoughts on an alternate OS with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora? It takes about 1 GB to boot up Fedora 27 now. And what's the future for CentOS?

Not sure it is time to run yet, but I enjoy using Ubuntu Mate. Xubuntu is a low mem choice as well.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by tomsmeding » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

gtycomb wrote: post #24

I use Fedora Linux on my laptop. What does this mean for the Fedora Project? Any thoughts on an alternate OS with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora? It takes about 1 GB to boot up Fedora 27 now. And what's the future for CentOS?

As for alternate Linux distributions, I don't know how similar you want to stay to Fedora, but my current setup would surely conform to your stated requirements: Arch linux, with i3 as window manager. I use st as my terminal emulator. All together, the memory footprint is minimal, and it makes my not-all-that-low laptop specs shine far more than a heavier distribution would have.

If you want something similar to Fedora, dunno. I believe the desktop interface is a big part of the memory usage of most distributions, so unless I'm mistaken in that, wanting low memory usage as well as a nice interface is going to be difficult.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by abrowne » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

gtycomb wrote: post #24

I use Fedora Linux on my laptop. What does this mean for the Fedora Project? Any thoughts on an alternate OS with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora? It takes about 1 GB to boot up Fedora 27 now. And what's the future for CentOS?

> Any thoughts on an alternate OS

Ubuntu, Debian, Arch? (Or Endless if you want something OSTree/Flatpak-based like Fedora Silverblue.)

> with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora?

Anything not GNOME? Not being (too) snarky — GNOME uses a lot of memory, although I've read they're making some progress recently. Even KDE these days is pretty low in memory usage by default.

Re: IBM acquires Red Hat

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Post by Tehchops » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

RIP Red Hat Linux.

Can't think of any company I'd want less to be a steward of CentOS upstream.

Looks like Ubuntu is about to get much more serious consideration for production workloads.