Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

  • ssm@programming.dev
    1262·
    2 years ago

    What you are referring to as Red Hat is in fact IBM/Red Hat, or as I’ve recently come to calling it, IBM + Red Hat

    • andruid@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, they just keep lowering the value paying them brings. Execs barely want to pay them in the first place, why would I as the engineer or IT solutioner care about putting money towards support if they keep abandoning projects…

    • aard@kyu.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      For non-gnome-users none of that matters. Only thing I ever touched from that was upower, but not even using that.

    • woelkchen@kbin.social
      62·
      2 years ago

      Yes, it will but so slowly and further down the road, nobody at IBM will see the connection. When Fedora (or desktop Linux in general) will be slightly less appealing to people who in 10 years will become the decision makers at IT departments, it’ll weaken the position of Linux and in turn the commercial support providers.

      Guess, everyone who does not yet own a Steam Deck needs to get one because Valve seems to be the biggest commercial proponent of consumer GNU/Linux.

  • aport@programming.dev
    54·
    2 years ago

    Farewell, Red Hat. Thanks for all your good work throughout the years. Sucks you sold out to IBM

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    371·
    2 years ago

    These kind of changes are absolutely infuriating, and what’s even worse, is that there’s nothing we can do about it

    • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
      241·
      2 years ago

      and what’s even worse, is that there’s nothing we can do about it

      Look I know it’s much easier said than done, but you can choose to walk away from IBM and Red Hat over this. If these changes start to lose money, they’ll respond. Otherwise they’ll see how much abuse their customers are willing to put up with and start doubling down.

      • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
        151·
        2 years ago

        Do you mean that Fedora users should question if they want to keep using this distro? Because I do use Fedora, and I understand I’m “beta-testing” an enterprise product, but yeah, for me this changes my “relationship” with Red Hat. Or what do you mean?

        • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          I just don’t want folks thinking they’re trapped, because that’s when a vendor will really start putting the screws to you.

  • vsis@feddit.clEnglish
    371·
    2 years ago

    Well, Fedora and Gnome were embraced and extended by IBM.

    You know what’s next now.

    • optissima@possumpat.io
      341·
      2 years ago

      Yep, Ubuntu will fork all of these, then trash them, introduce their alternatives, then drop support in 5 years.

    • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 years ago

      This was my thought exactly. Work is a RHEL shop and I had settled on Fedora after distro hopping. Ubuntu was for the new guys getting into Linux.

      My self hosted services were all CentOS and more recently Rocky/Alma. After the shenanigans RH pulled to make their source harder to obtain, I’m working through my personal ansible scripts to get up on Debain. I’ll never go back to RHEL or the forks.

      • warmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
        71·
        2 years ago

        Fedora is freaking amazing. Fresh & stable software, super clean UI, huge community…

        Debian has stable but old software (kernel and packages), clean UI, huge community. But it’s harder to use, since you have to make a few more manual steps to leave it at where Fedora comes as default.

        Fedora will always have a place as long as Red Hat stops shitting on it.

        • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
          31·
          2 years ago

          I don’t mind the old kernel, packages, etc. However, one of my biggest problems with debain so far is that SELinux isn’t installed by default… I’ve installed and enabled it but it doesn’t seem to let me SSH in. I’m still troubleshooting but its annoying to have to fight with it.

          I’d love to continue to use Fedora but I have no faith in RedHat. They don’t give a shit about their community anymore, including Fedora, so I believe its just a matter of time before that’s dead too.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      31·
      2 years ago

      Fedora has been the “Linux if you want to use it for realsies” distro for me, while Ubuntu has become the “Linux if your grandma still wants to use her old laptop” distro.

      🙄

  • s4if@lemmy.my.id
    251·
    2 years ago

    Welp… Gnome will lost many of their contributor/maintainer… Well, at least KDE folks is backed by Novell(SUSE) and XFCE is purely maintained by community already. It seems Linux desktop is still safe. lol

  • sadreality@kbin.social
    264·
    2 years ago

    Corpo shills were never on the team pleb… just so happened it was good for them to do something that benefited FOSS. Now that is over, it seems.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    11·
    2 years ago

    I am a little concerned to step in front of the hate machine here but this feels like a continued move away from app dev to more infrastructural stuff as previously announced by them. If so, I am all for it as not everybody is going to use Rhythmbox or LibreOffice but we can all use HDR and other core tech that Red Hat will develop instead. They are one of the few Linux companies that can fund these large, technical projects. Having them working on apps feels like a waste of their engineering potential.