Episode 401
Episode 4:01: RHEL Tough Choices
July 24th, 2023
1 hr 38 mins 20 secs
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About this Episode
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
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- feddit's community browser
- Another Lemmy explorer
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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.
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
More Announcements
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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
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
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Linux Matters Podcast
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*
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