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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Fedora is community based and "independent" from RedHat.

In the past, they often actively decided against RHs interests and will continue doing that in the future.
Independend in " because RH puts lots of dev power and $ into the Fedora Project, and loosing that would hurt.

It's a symbiotic relationship: RH provides money and developers, while we as users test for new technologies that will get used for RHEL in the future.

The increased ressources provides us with more (also financial) security. Still, if RH somehow decides to abandon Fedora, it will still continue to live on, see Project uBlue as example.


Also, calling everything you dislike "communist" is just dumb, there are way better words for that... Either, you use communism in the terms of "totalitarian government" like Stalin was, which is just... unfitting (Holodomor, etc.); or you don't get that promoting community based distros is more socialist than you realize.

Just say "I don't like stuff forced on me from corporations like Canonical" and don't use Ubuntu and thereof. Nobody hinders you in using what you want, and that's great!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you don't understand - I have reputable sources telling me that Linux is communism!

[–] bdonvr 5 points 1 year ago

That would make it cooler

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

People have absolutely lost their damn minds over the RH thing lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The reaction is funny too, because in my experience comparing communities of various distros, Fedora's community is among the the most inviting and professionally-behaving of them.

Personally, I am not running Fedora at the moment, but probably will when my Framework 16 arrives, since Fedora is officially supported on it. And to be honest, I find that I am making the same choices with Arch as Fedora would have made for me (aside from bootloader), so I feel that I'm wasting a bit of effort.