More Backlash Over IBM's Red Bait and Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks
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Episode 382 – Red Hat, you were the chosen one!
Josh and Kurt talk about Red Hat closing up the RHEL source code. Kurt and Josh both worked at Red Hat in the past. This isn’t a show that bashes Red Hat, and it’s not a show praising them. We take an honest look at the past, present, and future of Linux. There’s a lot to talk about in this one. TL;DR, Red Hat was the chosen on, and we all feel betrayed.
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2023-06-29 [Older] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management with in-place upgrades
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Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained
When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional "rebuild" of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its development build, Stream, CentOS suggested the strategy "removes confusion." Red Hat, which largely controlled CentOS by then, considered it "a natural, inevitable next step."
Last week, the IBM-owned Red Hat continued "furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream" by announcing that CentOS Stream would be "the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases," with RHEL's core code otherwise restricted to a customer portal. (RHEL access is free for individual developers and up to 16 servers, but that's largely not the issue here).
Red Hat's post was a rich example of burying the lede and a decisive moment for many who follow the tricky balance of Red Hat's open source commitments and service contract business. Here's what followed.
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2023-07-01 [Older] Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks