• jasondj@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    RedHats focus is on Enterprise Linux, Openshift, AWX, etc.

    Are they even a “competitor” in enterprise Linux desktop? Enterprise Linux servers, sure, and I suppose a good number of orgs who don’t want to deal with dissimilar “user” distros, but I’d think Canonical would have enterprise desktop Linux pretty much sealed by now.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve had a couple jobs with RHEL workstations, and the university I went to had RHEL workstations too. Not sure what their market share is compared to canonical, but they definitely have a bunch of deployments on desktop.

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      “Enterprise” linux just feels like something RH invented for their own brand.

      You can get LTS releases of a bunch of distros already, and some even offer similar levels of enterprise support (SUSE comes to mind).

      I’ve seen orgs run their own distro/spin or something like Zorin or Ubuntu if they don’t want RHEL.

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        1 year ago

        This is a fair point, but I don’t think Linux would be nearly as adopted in the business world without that branding. It’d be some fringe hobbyist thing and BSD would probably have become the server operating system of choice.

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      Fedora is a great OS. They also bought CoreOS a while ago and rolled it into their own offerings (fedora Coreos and RHEL Coreos). They’re also the primary developers of Pipewire, the de facto replacement for PulseAudio and potentially Gstreamer.

      It’s really sad, in a fluke they’ve embraced, expanded, and extinguished OSS projects by making themselves the linchpin, and then selling to IBM. Goes to show that you should never trust those even with the best intentions, as they can eventually sell out.