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Red Hat / Fedora drama? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't know Fedora had telemetry - can it be turned off? It's important in the FOSS world

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

At this point it's a proposal targeting Fedora 40 and the exact implementation is up in the air. It will likely be opt-out, but yes, you could turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think last time I installed it asked if I wanted to enable it at the end. By default it's off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I believe the primary problem (from the community) is that the telemetry was proposed to be default opt-out. Meaning the default choice is opted in.