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Should we be wary of Red Hat? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 day ago by propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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They were bought by IBM a few years back, but even aside from that they’re a corporation and they care about making money above all else.

It looks like Red Hat is doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t think the incessant Fedora shilling is unrelated.

It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 15 hours ago

I think systemd has moved desktop and server Linux towards being more BSD-like ... and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.

Maybe we'll end up needing an X11 -> Wayland sort of transition where there are protocols instead of "an implementation."

However, I've yet to see systemd be meaningfully detrimental. Are distros a little less different? Yeah. Has it made my life easier when I need to go between distros? Also, yeah.

I think on some level, we're just getting to a more mature Linux desktop and server ... and as a result consolidating on stuff that really doesn't have strong reasoning to be different.