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        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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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 Stuff

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        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.

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

    Got confused when there was only RHEL shitposts.

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        he was fun to watch, cli on an overhead. after a few years constantly signing things it becomes a time waster writing out each letter. my full signature is 23 letters. no readable letters since army. kids can’t read cursive anymore.

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        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

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          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.net
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          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”

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            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.

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        spent about a week listening to this guy talk. test day given a junk, blank x86 machine, install media and a list of services to setup with about 4 hours to complete. pro tip, learn to install rhel with no gui bloat. machine was so slow i spent half the time waiting for slow hardware, cdrom to hdd copy. checked it from his laptop. got results emailed. was relieved i somehow passed. don’t remember what it cost. employer paid. knew how beforehand. some people got done hours before me. no hat

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    It didn’t help their cause when they coincidentally came out with the “Fascist Fedora” release, and they had to decide to stop naming their releases after types of governments.

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        Honestly, it’s a little weird that people can’t identify such obvious shitposting in a meme community. This is the second time it’s happened in two weeks.

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          What are you talking about Fascist Fedora? Everyone else seems to be having fun with the post because it is a shitpost.

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            You don’t understand the humor of hearing about something that seems to be a coincidence, and then hearing a separate example that is overtly terrible in the same way?

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              No, I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I’ve engaged in this for too long already if you’re not going to explain whatever the heck you were talking about. I think you’re also getting downvotes because others don’t know what you’re talking about either.

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                I literally just explained it to you. I’m not being cagey. I think you must be used to not getting jokes, so I’m not sure why you’re blaming me.

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                  I would say based on the votes nobody knows what you’re talking about. But yeah, go ahead and be condescending for some reason. Enjoy it I guess.

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              what are you saying, what are you talking about? it feels like you’re making reference to something which seems obvious to you but the rest of us don’t know what you’re referring

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                Okay, I’ll explain it to you, but only if you play along.

                Explain to me what is the purpose of OP’s post, with the protest sign at the no kings protest.

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                  1. bring attention to that people on lemmy are participating in No Kings
                  2. draw a connection between the Red Hats and RedHat

                  personally i’d not have made the association joke since IBM, the RedHat corporation’s parent company is genuinely participatory in both the Latin/Indigenous American genocide and Israel’s genocide against muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other nearby nations, not to mention RedHat themselves have been exploiting people’s labor in North Carolina and haven’t done hardly anything to help the neighboring communities around their offices in Charlotte and Ashville, but i don’t expect most people shitposting about Linux on Lemmy to be keyed into the real world impacts the RedHat corporation has on my friends and neighbors

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        It took me a second to get it too. It’s just a joke that’s worded like the caption on an old fashioned 1 panel cartoon, like Far Side.

        e.g. if I’d posted a picture of a man surrounded by an angry mob, he might have commented something like “in hindsight, Greg shouldn’t have sold a counterfeit Mona Lisa to ALL the museums in town.”