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

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you explain why "community system" is bad? Genuinely curious, since the word community sounds like it's not controlled by corpo interests

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Community systems are not bad, that's most of Linux, but there needs to be an ethical, FOSS-friendly enterprise system to get corpos invested in Linux and FOSS. Besides, corporate systems usually have massive dev teams and upstream/open-source a lot of their work. As much as I shit on Canonical and Red Hat, they've done immense amounts of beneficial work for Linux and FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That makes sense, thank you. My question above was specifically about Debian, since I've heard the point of it being community based used negatively in other places/threads too.

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

I didn't mean it in a negative light. The issue is that companies prefer to trust other companies, which is why it's good to have a moral company to point to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My question above was specifically about Debian, since I’ve heard the point of it being community based used negatively in other places/threads too.

Fun fact: For a few years HP was very invested in Debian because they saw that as the most likely successor to their old HP-UX Unix on mainframe servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Basically yes. Beautifully and accurately explained.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's not bad but companies like someone to talk to/blame when something goes wrong.