Episode 4:01: RHEL Tough Choices

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Coming up in this episode

• The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!)
• The Red Hat Recap
• Browser Watch...ing!
• Some feedback, and a focus

The Video Podcast
https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8

401 Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:16 The Gentoo Checkin
11:33 We Have a Lemmy!
19:24 Red Hat Recap
46:09 Browser Watch
1:05:21 Feedback
1:23:05 Community Focus: Linux Matters
1:27:03 App Focus: Jerboa & Memmy
1:34:48 Next Time: Debian
1:37:09 Stinger

Banter

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• Lemmy
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RH takes their source and goes home

2019

• July - IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Jim Whitehurst said at the time.

2020

• December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor to CentOS Linux.
• an FAQ linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream

2021

• January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL.
• February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site.
• March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released
• June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release

2022

• Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases every quarter of the year.
• IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff was growing at similar rates.

2023

• April - Red Hat announement
• Ben Cotton and others were laid off.
• June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github
• Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed.
• Mike McGrath writes a clarification post
• Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images
• July - Alma Linux no longer aims for bug-for-bug compatibility.

SUSE and Oracle

• Oracle's press release
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE's statement
• SUSE Liberty Linux
• SUSE Manager

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Browser Watch

• Firefox 115 brings hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs and more.
• Vivaldi 6.1 they found a way to use Bing Chat.
• Edge blocks notification spam, now!
• Opera is relaunching as Opera One.

Feedback

Sebastian

• SerenityOS
• Ladybird Browser
• Andreas Kling on YouTube

Rich

• Greenbone Open Source Vulnerability Management
• Leo recommends The Linux Commandline by Willian Shotts
• Dan recommends Learn Linux TV
• If there is something specific you want to know more about let us know.

Scout

• HP Elite Mini 800 PCs
• Lenovo M75q Mini PCs
• Dell OptiPlex Micro PCs
• The a11y project
• Orca is part of Gnome
• Other Gnome accessibility tools
• KDE accessibility tools

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Linux Matters Podcast

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App Focus Jerboa and Memmy

• Jerboa in the Google Play Store
• Jerboa in FDroid
• Jerboa GitHub repo
• Memmy in the Apple store
• Memmy GitHub repo

Next Time

The history of Debian, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*

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