Episode 4:01: RHEL Tough Choices

Linux User Space — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0400

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The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!)
The Red Hat Recap
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Some feedback, and a focus

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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

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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.

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