• m3t00🌎🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        is centos still around? jumped on ubuntu to escape rpm corruption. don’t care to know anymore. shutdown -h now; not in the menu? wtf

        • mghackerlady@leminal.space
          1·
          10 minutes ago

          Centos exists as centos stream, which serves as upstream to RHEL and is downstream from fedora. For something like old centos, theres rocky

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          it’s still “around” but its leadership and mission have changed drastically enough since IBM’s purchase of RedHat to represent something completely else from what it once did and how you probably thought of it back when you paid attention to it. i’m sure if you installed it you’d find it all very familiar for a while, but eventually you’d hit something that made you go “hey wait”

          • m3t00🌎🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago

            replaced an IBM mainframe with a rack of linux DB2 and app servers. they wanted a cert to keep legal happy. a week paid vacation for the cert.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    18 hours ago

    Fun thing.

    Back in the day, I left Fedora and RH-based distros in general precisely because of the racist attitude of their communities and official sites towards Latin American users, including attempts at profiling on their community support channels. I guess not much has changed since then.

    • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      there’s WAY too many nazis in open source. it makes me so mad. the originators of these tools and licenses believed in making tools available for everyone so that we could be the owners. but then these fucking selfish assholes don’t want anything but for themselves. they contribut to Linux, sure, but not out of any desire that Linux grow or be usable for everyone, but just out of their own desire to not pay for something and then an opportunity to weild petty power over someone.

      i am so sorry you experienced that. it was not an experience anyone should have to endure.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      17 hours ago

      An anagram of Fedora, however, is Ford EA, two awful companies.

      One of which was founded by a fascist, the other mainly existing to perfect enshittification of computer games.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      17 hours ago

      In this case, they’re referring to the old-fashioned autocratic rulers of absolute monarchies, rather than the otherwise relatively harmless figureheads that constitutional monarchies bafflingly insist on still wasting vast resources on in 2026.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        18 hours ago

        hmm yeah i was asking because in the context of these protests, it’s important to understand precisely what is actually protested against, just for the sake of making more efficient analysis and decisions.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 hours ago

          People think the current us administration is doing a lot of awful things to a lot of people buts it’s worse that they hold themselves above the law to do it, above the limits of their power, above the checks and balances that usually prevent authoritarianism

          Among the many bad stereotypes of royalty is the blatant nepotism, self-enrichment, and total disregard for their constituents. Somehow they have no shame in accepting bribes, do not even try to hide it, and no shame using their authority to establish business “deals@ for family and friends

        • lime!@feddit.nu
          6·
          18 hours ago

          i think they’re talking about a leader snatching up power to make themselves an all-powerful ruler. where the power comes not from a mandate of the masses but from a wet tart throwing a sword at you absolute authority.

            • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
              3·
              17 hours ago

              yup. we would prefer the power of this nation to live amongst the people rather than allow it to coagulate into a single person or position. unfortunately with what amounts to actual monarchists in control of all three branches of government, we are on the backfoot.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          2·
          19 hours ago

          Though their existence in the nobility was often through birth, Andorra has an elected prince from the general population.

          I was speaking in the context of these protests.

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          18 hours ago

          yeah german had that concept by the way. it’s interesting to look at history and how stuff was done in earlier times

          germany at some time had a king that was elected by the 7 most influential local landlords. they met and elected a king.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      202·
      23 hours ago

      Most large tech companies have offices in Israel. Israel positioned itself as a “high-tech nation” to a huge degree, and there’s tons of engineering talent here that companies rightly want to hire and capitalize on.

      Whether that makes these companies “supporters” of Israel is up to your interpretation, I guess, but it’s more likely to just be the smart move without any political agenda. Not to mention that they’ve had offices here for years and years, well before Israel’s recent wars and plummeting of their international image. At that point the company already had lots of its workforce here and closing down offices would have been a shot in the leg.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Arguably had to. For too many years Misguided us policies prevented exporting software with useful encryption, arguably blocked it entirely from opensource. Among the consequences was an encryption industry n Israel suitable for opensource

            • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
              6·
              20 hours ago

              Seems like the so called “Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign” blocks all IPs from Israel. Hilarious considering the number of Palestinians whose only way to connect to the internet is through Israeli ISPs… Which is either most of them or a very significant number of them. Solidarity, eh?

            • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              20 hours ago

              Yeah, if I use one it might work, but why would a site block me in the first place? It’s not something a legitimate news site usually does…

              • smeenz@lemmy.nz
                3·
                19 hours ago

                I think the suggestion was that it could be blocked if you were using VPN to access it,.not that it would need a VPN.

                • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
                  2·
                  18 hours ago

                  Yeah, perhaps they did. As it happens, I wasn’t using a VPN, but I do pay for one so I tried it. VPN to Germany -> site loaded. VPN to Israel -> same error. They literally just blocked the whole country using cloudflare… The country where most of the people they claim to have solidarity with live, and where presumably they’d want their message to be heard the most. Unless, maybe, it’s just a propaganda site that doesn’t actually care about Palestinians and instead has some other agenda? Hmmm…

      • mrbutterscotch@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I’m a little hesitant to use that link, wasn’t there recently something about a lot of archive websites using visitors for ddos attacks or something similar?

        • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          I’m a little hesitant to use that link, wasn’t there recently something about a lot of archive websites using visitors for ddos attacks or something similar?

          The archive site recently caught doing ddos attacks was archive.today (which also uses the domains .fo, .is, .li, .md, .ph, and .vn). This is a site run by a pseudonymous individual since 2012. Here is the wikipedia article about them.

          The link in my comment above is to archive.org, which is a very reputable organization called The Internet Archive which has been operating since 1996 and definitely would not use its visitors’ browsers for ddos attacks. Here is the wikipedia article about them.

          Know the difference :)

          Also, btw, while the latter is older, larger, and vastly more credible, the former uses different archiving techniques which enable them to have archives of many things which the latter doesn’t. So, it does continue to also be a useful tool, albeit one of last resort.

        • mghackerlady@leminal.space
          1·
          6 minutes ago

          Because it’s fun. Also, it lets discussion happen about the flaws and benefits of a distro. at the end of the day very few people are super serious about it.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
          29·
          2 days ago

          It’s (usually) all in good fun.

          Anyway, we can’t talk shit to anyone except each-other. No one else understands our jargon.

          • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
            19·
            1 day ago

            yeah, and besides, we’re all Hannah Montanna Linux bros. GTFO if not HML

        • ramasses@social.ozymandias.clubEnglish
          175·
          2 days ago

          Because the ubuntu edition is just sypware (thanks canonical). Linux is great, but their are good and bad choices to be made

          • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            6·
            1 day ago

            None of it seems to suggest it’s spyware. I agree they do bad practices but spyware? C’mon

            Also linux mint(the ububtu based one) also removes snaps and everything. How can you say anything like that about mint then?

              • Zombie@feddit.uk
                4·
                1 day ago

                Thank you for the sources. However, from your own source Mint appears to be fine. Ubuntu, agreed, isn’t worth touching but Mint seems to remove the problems with Ubuntu.

                4 If you are a desktop user who values control and simplicity — consider migrating: Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Fedora, and Debian all offer compelling alternatives without Snap’s structural issues. The migration cost is real but one-time; the ongoing friction of managing Snap on Ubuntu compounds with every package and every update.

                5 If you recommend distros to others — update your recommendation: Developers who previously defaulted to “just install Ubuntu” when helping friends or onboarding team members should now give this advice more thought. Linux Mint in particular offers a nearly identical user experience to Ubuntu’s classic desktop with none of the Snap-related friction.

              • LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip
                4·
                1 day ago

                I don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Yes and no. Fedora is the upstream of RHEL, and like Fedora there are both workstation and server editions. The relationship is similar to RHEL being the LTS of Fedora but not quite the same. A lot of governments and enterprises that have switched to Linux for workstations are using RHEL.

            • BCsven@lemmy.ca
              1·
              18 hours ago

              It may not be home user choice, but in enterprise CAD PLM it is. Out of all the Desktop Distros, only SUSE and RHEL were supported so you had to pick one.

              • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                14 hours ago

                I’m not even talking just home use. I actually work for Red Hat. Granted I work in the public sector so what I see might be skewed, but I rarely ever see anyone use the desktop version.

                • BCsven@lemmy.ca
                  1·
                  12 hours ago

                  Yeah, I’m sure there are segments that only use server stuff instead of workstations. I’m on the other end I only deal with desktop, as we have IT for server Sturt

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        21 hours ago

        Long-term support and distro-branched tool chains are a boon to the workstation too. And all of lennarts cancer has been in support of dynamic networking changes and wifi devices; no overlap with a server, but they include that shit at every turn. So obviously they’re primarily geared for laptops and servers are a target of opportunity – and their decline in stability over 3-4 distro versions just backs that up.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    123·
    2 days ago

    Didn’t notice the community, came here hoping for a RHEL shitpost.

    Got confused when there was only RHEL shitposts.