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Red Hat 30th anniversary
- froh 4y agosweet they are a year younger than SUSE https://www.suse.com/de-de/30years/ https://www.suse.com/de-de/30years/
- kar1181 4y agoThey still host images for the versions of linux I cut my teeth on in the 90s. For that as much as anything I'm really greatful! Redhat 4.2 Biltmore represent!
- _chu1 4y agoUnrelated but does anyone know if Fedora/Red Hat is or if they will start funding KDE as they do GNOME?
- teddyh 4y agoRed Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM. But that’s only if you count the starting year as 1993; Red Hat the actual company seems to have been started in 1995, from what I read. In that case, they would have been 28 years old today.
- samueloph 4y ago> But that’s only if you count the starting year as 1993; Red Hat the actual company seems to have been started in 1995, from what I read. In that case, they would have been 28 years old today. The distro was not created before 1994 either, so looks like they're counting the moment the founders got together as the creation date (before the distro, before the company) ?!
- nemetroid 4y agoAccording to the article, > Red Hat was incorporated on March 26, 1993, by its founders Bob Young and Marc Ewing
- tokai 4y agoRed Hats themselves says 95 other places.[0] Young and Ewing was working together from 93', but Red Hat Software, Inc. is from 95. [0] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/history https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/history
- teddyh 4y agoI guess that depends on your definitions. ACC Corporation was created in 1993, but it was a simple CD-selling company and had nothing to do with Red Hat except distributing their CDs, like many other CDs they sold.
- brozaman 4y ago> Red Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM. As a former Red Hat employee this was painful to read. IBM is doing a Sun Microsystems to it, Red Hat used to be such a great company.
- stbenjam 4y agoStill is. I’ve been at RH a long time. IBM hasn’t touched us and they are not doing what Oracle did to Sun. Not yet anyway, but Jim made a bunch of promises to us when we were acquired and they’ve kept them all.
- quickthrower2 4y agoWhy would IBM acquire and not touch it? They must have had a reason to acquire?
- bonzini 4y agoRed Hat is now worth 10% of IBM's revenue, and growing. They had 3.4 billion reasons to acquire when they acquired it in 2018, and they had roughly 6 billion reasons not to touch it last year.
- op00to 4y agoIBM "touches" Red Hat on a constant basis, needling and throwing its weight around to make way for blue ribbon 7 figure deals that never materialize.
- CameronNemo 4y agoBig list of companies to upsell to.
- op00to 4y agoThis has not been my experience AT ALL. Also, no one has mentioned Jim in years. Where is he anyway? Chewed up an spat out by the IBM machine.
- nspattak 4y agoI still have my first linux cd somewhere. They came together with the `SAMS RedHat Linux 7.0 Unleased` book I bought as I did not want to go through the same pain I went with my 33600 pstn downloading slackware 7's cd#1 in 14 days. Cheers RedHat :)
- eddieroger 4y agoUgh now I feel old, because my first Linux was a Red Hat on floppies that came tied to a RH 4.X book or something. It was so cool to install on an old Gateway 2000 I had come across, and have my own computer. Hard to believe that for as lost as I was in that shell on day one, I now spend so much time in one, sometimes from a computer that fits in my pocket.
- zhte415 4y agoI remember coming down an escalator around 23 years ago in an Amazon or Amazon-like bookstore seeing someone pick up a Redhat box in its distinctive colouring from behind the cashier desk and thinking "They're onto something."
- iso1631 4y agoMy first was from a Redhat 5.2 book, some time in the first half of 1999. Alas at the time my SIS6326 wasn't supported in X, at least by default so there was little I could do. In those days internet access wasn't ubiquitous like today -- you could get online, you'd have to use minicom to dial your modem, then background it, then run pppd to get IP up and working, then use lynx to access the internet. Or dual-boot back to windows, use a browser, find something else to try, then back to linux to try that. Wasn't really until 6.0 that I started using linux properly, and wasn't until Debian Potato in August 2000 that it became my primary OS.
- hn_throwaway_69 4y agoI only have a modicum of respect for this company after they butchered CentOS.
- Spivak 4y agoWhich honestly is going to bite them. The on-ramp from CentOS when small and RHEL once you’re big enough to need support is gone. It’s Ubuntu/Debian all the way down now.
- onphonenow 4y agoThis… it was a natural flow. I’ve switched to Ubuntu too but my muscle memory is Redhat so still sometimes annoying- never got into Debian though
- arjvik 4y agoIBM's acquisition caused this, don't blame only RedHat
- kasabali 4y agoThey bought CentOS in 2014 which was long before IBM.
- midoridensha 4y agoAh yes, IBM: the software company that still thinks Rational ClearCase is a great version control system.
- pjmlp 4y agoGiven the amount of money in the bank versus many wannabe startups, they are somehow right. And yes, ClearCase does stuff that many alternatives to this days still has issues dealing with. With ClearCase I already had object files caching across the build cluster without extra stuff, a nice graphical management tooling, and I never messed my view specification files, like I routinely need to fix my Git repos.
- einpoklum 4y agoWhat would you say are the main contributions of RedHat to the FOSS world, from its inception until this time (or 2019 if we want to split hairs)? As a devotee Debian (now Devuan), I've never been fond of RedHat/RHEL/CentOS as distributions and they always felt clunky to me somehow. But I am vaguely aware that RedHat has been involved in kernel development and the development of various apps etc. What would you say are the most prominent and "redeeming" of those?
- yrro 4y agoSee the sibling comment from Thev00d00 for a decent answer.
- account42 4y agoJust one person amongs many, but employing Dave Airlie (airlied) has been a great boon for the Linux graphics stack. Among many other things, arlied started the radv driver (together with Bas Nieuwenhuizen) which has been become a significant part of Linux gaming on AMD hardware.
- dralley 4y agoThere was a long stretch of time for which the only full-time developer working on Python (cPython) upstream was a Red Hat employee. The other core devs were either working in their free time or with their employers sponsoring only a few hours a week. https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developers/924 https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developer... I believe Microsoft has been sponsoring a lot of work for the past year or so, so I doubt that is still the case. Red Hat has been probably the biggest contributor to GCC for a very long time and contributes to LLVM/clang as well. Beyond the kernel - glibc has a lot of RH maintenance work, Grub2, wayland, Xorg, Gnome, Gtk, pipewire, systemd. etc.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoCue start of a systemd debate. Less sarcastically, systemd is a major part of most distros. It has it's haters, but it's one of the most impressive additions to FOSS from Red Hat.
- Thev00d00 4y agoLeader: "What have Red Hat ever done for us?" Enthusiast #1: "Well, they developed and continue to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, one of the most popular enterprise Linux distributions." Leader: "Oh, well obviously we need that. That's true." Enthusiast #2: "And don't forget about the Fedora Project! It's a community-driven distribution that helps test out new technologies before they make their way into RHEL." Leader: "Oh, right, the Fedora Project. Yes, yes, we should be grateful for that." Enthusiast #3: "Plus, they've made significant contributions to the development of the Linux kernel, especially when it comes to virtualization, security, and performance." Leader: "Ah, yes, the kernel. You're absolutely right, that's a big one." Enthusiast #4: "And what about all the open-source software projects they've developed and supported, like the GNOME, JBoss and Ansible?" Leader: "Well, obviously we couldn't get by without those." Enthusiast #5: "And let's not forget about their collaboration with other companies and organizations to advance open-source initiatives, like OpenStack and Kubernetes." Leader: "Yes, yes, very impressive. But apart from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Fedora Project, contributions to the Linux kernel, open-source software projects, and collaboration with other organizations, what have Red Hat ever done for us?"
- quickthrower2 4y agosystemd?
- dralley 4y agopipewire
- EntrePrescott 4y agogiven the strongly diverging views and controversial nature of forum discussions whenever the subject "systemd" comes up, I feel like I have to ask, for the sake of clarity: was the mention of systemd meant positively (in favor of Red Hat) or negatively/sarcastically?
- kasabali 4y agoyes
- CraigJPerry 4y agoStill to this day, THE BEST exam i ever sat was the Redhat Certified Engineer. I guess like many folks here i’ve sat a ton of exams over the years but none compares to that one. I can’t really think of another case where i loved an exam. It might have all changed by now, I did my RHCE exam on RHEL5.5 so we’re talking many moons ago before switching careers to development.
- jyscao 4y agoRed Hat deprecated that exam a couple years ago, and the content it tested for (provisioning servers of various kinds and security) simply got scrapped completely. I attempted that exam right before it was to disappear permanently, on RHEL 7.4, but did not pass unfortunately.
- eminent101 4y ago> I guess like many folks here i’ve sat a ton of exams over the years At the risk of sounding like a caveman I have to admit that I haven't sat a single exam in my professional life. Am I losing out on something? What benefits have these exams brought to you that could not have been happened without them? Seriously considering if I should start signing up for them. And if I want to sign up for them, where do I start?
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoFor your personal development, it offers a structured way to learn a new skill; doing it on your own works, but has the risk of skipping large swathes of it or getting bored with it. Working towards certification is a goal you can work towards, as an alternative to undirected or situational learning. And for an employer it's a nice tick when assessing candidates, it might just tip the scales in your favors vs someone else. However, I recognize that we're very much in a "seller's market", in that it often feels like education or certifications don't matter when it comes to finding a job, to the point where some years ago, people that just had a crash course / boot camp (as opposed to a formal education, bachelor's or master's degree) could land a six-figure job at a FAANG or startup company.
- dagw 4y ago
- martyvis 4y agoI think I bought my first Intel based PC (a 486DX66 with 4MB RAM) in March 1993 - I was just shy of 30 myself. A core goal, which I achieved, was to dual-boot MS-DOS6 and Linux. While I started with SLS and Ydraggisil, I did end up giving Redhat a run. It's great to see it make it commercially.
- petr25102018 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwaaFwTluLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwaaFwTluLU
- zubairq 4y agoI have very fond memories of the two years I spent at Red Hat. I even organised an interview with Bob Young in 2019: https://youtu.be/Z75GvP-nYtA https://youtu.be/Z75GvP-nYtA