Episode 4:01: RHEL Tough Choices
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* The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!)
* The Red Hat Recap
* Browser Watch...ing!
* Some feedback, and a focus
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401 Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:16 The Gentoo Checkin
11:33 We Have a Lemmy!
19:24 Red Hat Recap
46:09 Browser Watch
1:05:21 Feedback
1:23:05 Community Focus: Linux Matters
1:27:03 App Focus: Jerboa & Memmy
1:34:48 Next Time: Debian
1:37:09 Stinger
Banter
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RH takes their source and goes home
2019
July - IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Jim Whitehurst said at the time (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future).
2020
December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux) to CentOS Linux.
an FAQ (https://centos.org/distro-faq/) linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream (https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream)
2021
January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel).
February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site (https://web.archive.org/web/20230621142027/https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/03/a-guide-for-using-centos-project-code).
March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released (https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-os-stable-release-is-live/)
June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-4-ga-release/)
2022
Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases (https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article271678707.html) every quarter of the year.
IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff (https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q22-Earnings-Prepared-Remarks.pdf) was growing at similar rates.
2023
April - Red Hat announement (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today)
Ben Cotton and others were laid off (https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2023/05/12/inaction-bcotton/).
June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream)
Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed (https://web.archive.org/web/20230621142027/https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/03/a-guide-for-using-centos-project-code).
Mike McGrath writes a clarification post (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes)
Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images (https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/)
July - Alma Linux no longer aims (https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/) for bug-for-bug compatibility.
SUSE and Oracle
Oracle's press release (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/)
Oracle Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/)
SUSE's statement (https://www.suse.com/c/navigating-changes-in-the-open-source-landscape/)
SUSE Liberty Linux (https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/)
SUSE Manager (https://www.suse.com/products/suse-manager/)
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Browser Watch
Firefox 115 (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.0/releasenotes/) brings hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs and more.
Vivaldi 6.1 they found a way (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-1/) to use Bing Chat.
Edge blocks notification spam (https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2023/07/06/fighting-notification-spam-microsoft-edge/), now!
Opera is relaunching as Opera One (https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/06/introducing-opera-one/).
Feedback
Sebastian
SerenityOS (https://serenityos.org/)
Ladybird Browser (https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/)
Andreas Kling on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling)
Rich
Greenbone Open Source Vulnerability Management (https://github.com/greenbone)
Leo recommends The Linux Commandline by Willian Shotts (http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/)
Dan recommends Learn Linux TV (https://www.learnlinux.tv/)
If there is something specific you want to know more about let us know.
Scout
HP Elite Mini 800 PCs (https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/business-solutions/elitedesk-800-mini)
Lenovo M75q Mini PCs (https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkCentre/ThinkCentre_M75q_Gen_2)
Dell OptiPlex Micro PCs (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/sr/desktops/optiplex-desktops/micro?appliedRefinements=41015)
The a11y project (https://www.a11yproject.com/)
Orca is part of Gnome (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca)
Other Gnome accessibility tools (https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html)
KDE accessibility tools (https://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Accessibility)
Housekeeping
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App Focus Jerboa and Memmy
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Memmy GitHub repo (https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy)
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Coming up in this episode
The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!)
The Red Hat Recap
Browser Watch...ing!
Some feedback, and a focus
The Video Podcast
https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8
401 Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:16 The Gentoo Checkin
11:33 We Have a Lemmy!
19:24 Red Hat Recap
46:09 Browser Watch
1:05:21 Feedback
1:23:05 Community Focus: Linux Matters
1:27:03 App Focus: Jerboa & Memmy
1:34:48 Next Time: Debian
1:37:09 Stinger
Banter
Gentoo check in - Use the Handbook! The wiki is just great in general.
Lemmy
The Linux User Space Lemmy instance
feddit's community browser
Another Lemmy explorer
Announcements
📺️ Give us a sub on YouTube and TILvids.
📽️ You can watch us live on Twitch the day after an episode drops.
😍 If you like what we're doing here, make sure to send us a buck over at https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace
RH takes their source and goes home
2019
July - IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Jim Whitehurst said at the time.
2020
December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor to CentOS Linux.
an FAQ linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream
2021
January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL.
February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site.
March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released
June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release
2022
Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases every quarter of the year.
IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff was growing at similar rates.
2023
April - Red Hat announement
Ben Cotton and others were laid off.
June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github
Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed.
Mike McGrath writes a clarification post
Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images
July - Alma Linux no longer aims for bug-for-bug compatibility.
SUSE and Oracle
Oracle's press release
Oracle Linux
SUSE's statement
SUSE Liberty Linux
SUSE Manager
More Announcements
Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Browser Watch
Firefox 115 brings hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs and more.
Vivaldi 6.1 they found a way to use Bing Chat.
Edge blocks notification spam, now!
Opera is relaunching as Opera One.
Feedback
Sebastian
SerenityOS
Ladybird Browser
Andreas Kling on YouTube
Rich
Greenbone Open Source Vulnerability Management
Leo recommends The Linux Commandline by Willian Shotts
Dan recommends Learn Linux TV
If there is something specific you want to know more about let us know.
Scout
HP Elite Mini 800 PCs
Lenovo M75q Mini PCs
Dell OptiPlex Micro PCs
The a11y project
Orca is part of Gnome
Other Gnome accessibility tools
KDE accessibility tools
Housekeeping
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy
📰 Linux User Space subreddit
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📲 Linux User Space Telegram
✉️ Linux User Space Matrix
📽️ Linux User Space Twitch
🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon
📜 Linux User Space Twitter
📺️ Linux User Space TILVids
App Focus Jerboa and Memmy
Jerboa in the Google Play Store
Jerboa in FDroid
Jerboa GitHub repo
Memmy in the Apple store
Memmy GitHub repo
Next Time
The history of Debian, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space
Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
Producer
Bruno
John
Dave
Johnny
Co-Producer
Tim
Johnny
Super User
Advait
Bjørnar
CubicleNate
Eduardo S.
Jill and Steve
Larry
LiNuXsys666
Livet
Musical Coder
Nicholas
sleepyeyesvince