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I left Ubuntu when they sent all my dock search history to Amazon. But this time is different, should I leave Fedora considering how much it is developed by Red Hat?

I've actively defended this distribution and Red Hat for many years now and I'm deep in their technology but I want to avoid being a Devil's Advocate.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need to leave Fedora.

RH will just cut them out soon enough, if you believe the trends.

Best have a plan to move on FROM them, though. Look into parallel porting to PCLinuxOS for now, as it's a VERY similar maintenance routine, and it has a very wide app support window. Their unattended install (ie packer for vagrant or ovirt) is absolute ass, but that's their achilles heel. Ultimately, that may not be a problem for you.

I'd direct you to the PCL/OS lemmy sub, but I think there is none yet.

[–] user8e8f87c@berlin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@corsicanguppy @Raphael Fedora is the beta testing platform for RHEL. Redhat will not cut them out.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They just announced CentOS is the beta platform.