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> Fedora has concentrated on being a solid, traditional Linux desktop. If you consider pulseaudio, systemd and not being able to play mp3 traditional. Also, th
by glogla 9y ago
> Fedora has concentrated on being a solid, traditional Linux desktop.
If you consider pulseaudio, systemd and not being able to play mp3 traditional. Also, they used to fuck with encryption in some way, not sure if they still do it.
In the end, do you trust more Poettering or Debian or Ubuntu developers?
- proaralyst 9y agoRed Hat took $2.4 billion in revenue last year.[0] I trust them more. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
- falcolas 9y agoRevenue generates trust? How do you feel about Oracle? Only a little sarcastic; RHEL and Red Hat's historic treatment of CentOS had a lot of echos of Oracle's treatment of similar projects. They've gotten a little better in some regards (now own CentOS and seem to care about it) and worse in others (the of marketing and politics instead of merit).
- nailer 9y ago> "RHEL and Red Hat's historic treatment of CentOS" What? Red Hat didn't treat CentOS badly: they happily let people make trademark-less respins of their OS per the license and didn't try and stop anyone from doing so. (Disclaimer: worked for RH around 2003-6)
- Annatar 9y agoIn Bryan Cantrill, Jerry Jelinek, Adam Leventhal, Eric Schrock, Matt Ahrens, Bill Moore, Jeff Bonwick, Robert Mustacci and Dan Price we trust; all others pay cash.
- JdeBP 9y agoFalse dichotomy. When last measured, the ninth most prolific systemd developer, out of just under 600, was Martin Pitt, of Canonical.
- nailer 9y agoGot a reference to RHEL 'fucking with encryption'? Export controls on crypto ended in Clinton era.