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Carl George retweeted
Take two: here's a survey about Extra Packages for #EnterpriseLinux that the #EPEL SIG is running! If you are a user or contributor, please give us your feedback. Survey closes at the end of September. #Fedora #Linux
EPEL Survey: fedoraproject.limequery.com/…
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Carl George retweeted
1-to-1 and bug-for-bug RHEL compatibility is a myth. It's a marketing catchphrase. It's a blatant lie and I'm sick of reading it in articles. Until RHEL clones force me to use subscription-manager, they are not the same as RHEL.
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Carl George retweeted
FOSS twitter/reddit is like an army of militant vegans just realising that RHEL is made from meat & made using an ugly process focused on producing the type of sausage RHs customers want
I’m not sure what to make of this apparent rude awakening
It’s not new or news
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Carl George retweeted
Red Hat has never published the source to the extended release branches of RHEL, only the newest packages in the major release. Now that Stream is available, those are the latest packages.
This is a change, certainly, but Red Hat restricting its source is not fundamentally new.
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Carl George retweeted
My perspective on the recent Red Hat blog posts regarding changes to how sources are published on git.centos.org
jonathanspw.com/posts/2023-0…
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Carl George retweeted
For the people in the back: the software that makes up RHEL is open source. RHEL the product *isnt*. This is not sneaky. It’s always been this way. Red Hat owns those marks, and that brand is its product.
Wow. Never saw this in IBM's own enterprise open source landing page (ibm.com/opensource/enterpris… under '5')
And a Red Hat engineer, upon seeing it, claimed "Red hat enterprise Linux is not an opensource project" [sic] — if so, my perception of reality is blown.
(h/t @joaompinto4)
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Carl George retweeted
I think Matt’s right, and also it’s a silly move by RH. This likely won’t kill Alma or Rocky. If it changes them to be variants off CentOS Stream, and they stay stable (which they likely would!) it shows that the stability guarantees are easier to achieve than RHEL makes them out
Red Hat just declared an end to the RHEL clones' free lunch, but for enterprises looking for a solid foundation for their enterprise Linux strategy, the clones were always a bad idea infoworld.com/article/370065… by @mjasay for @InfoWorld
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Carl George retweeted
Rocky selling support is huge bullshit. If they want revenue, they should build off stream.
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Carl George retweeted
RH should have said: look, what we want is collaboration building RHEL amongst all the downstream projects. We want this because supporting this endeavor is complex and expensive. We understand not everyone is going to pay for RHEL subscriptions. Obviously we wish you would!
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Carl George retweeted
Well, this is cool. The Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is running CentOS Stream.
buff.ly/3JzbqHz
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I have some thoughts about CentOS Stream and the modernization of Red Hat's source code publishing.
medium.com/@gordon.messmer/i…
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Carl George retweeted
I have to say that I hoped for a more rational response when I saw that SFC had commented on Red Hat's code publishing change. I've held SFC in high regard for a very long time.
sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/…
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After nearly a year of escalations trying to get a ~$500 charge refunded, the final answer from the "office of the CEO" is that @USAA "doesn't have the funds" to refund me. I didn't realize my bank was too broke to protect its customers from fraud.
TIL that @USAA's debit card fraud protection is limited to only 180 days. If you pay a vendor half up front for work that is expected to take 6+ months, and then the vendor never does the work, you have no recourse. Any suggestions for a bank with better debit card protection?
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Going to SCALE this week? Do you use the EPEL repository? Come to my talk "The Road to EPEL 9" to learn how EPEL was able to launch before RHEL for the first time ever.
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x…
#epel #centos #rhel #redhat #scale20x
ALT Promotional banner for a SCALE presentation. The middle is a picture of me, the speaker. On the left is a steampunk microphone. On the top right is my name and the title of my talk, "The Road to EPEL 9". On the bottom right is the SCALE logo with the location (Pasadena, CA) and dates (March 9-12, 2023) of the conference.
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I'll be speaking at @ohiolinux on Saturday. If you're gonna be there, come check out my talk "The Road to EPEL 9" to learn how EPEL was able to launch before RHEL for the first time ever.
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I'm kinda surprised this powerful photo hasn't been making the rounds more during early voting. Hey Texans, thoughts and prayers ain't working, so go #vote for a #Beto governor who actually gives a shit about children being murdered.
#BetoForTexas
ALT Beto O'Rourke disrupting a Greg Abbott press conference the day after the Uvalde school shooting. Photo from this article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/beto-orourke-heckles-texas-leaders-shooting-news-conference-2022-05-25/
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Carl George retweeted
The number of people who switched over to #Mastodon in the last week alone has surpassed 230 thousand, along with many returning to old accounts bumping the network to over 655 thousand active users, highest it's ever been!
Why? 👉
Why choose Mastodon? Because it's decentralized and open-source, it can't be sold and won't go bankrupt. It respects your privacy and gives control over the network to the people. It's a product on top of a protocol, the way Twitter should have been.
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