• Dehydrated@lemmy.world
    52·
    10 months ago

    This would be awesome. Fedora has really been one of the best distros lately, hopefully they don’t get fucked by Red Hat in the future.

      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
        462·
        10 months ago

        No, they only fucked CentOS, and they made RHEL proprietary last year. Since Ubuntu’s decline, Fedora basically took it’s place. It’s very stable but not extremely outdated, has great security, always supports the newest technologies like Flatpak, Wayland, Pipewire, etc., has good Desktop spins and constantly innovates. The next Fedora KDE release will even completely drop support for X11, which is a good step because it forces developers to adopt Wayland. They also have pretty good immutable spins like Silverblue, Kinoite and others. Other cool distros like Nobara and uBlue are also built on top of Fedora.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
          175·
          10 months ago

          Its not really proprietary. Developers get the code, and everyone that gets the binaries also gets the code. Thats GPL compliant.

          • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
            182·
            10 months ago

            To quote Software Freedom Conservancy:

            For approximately twenty years, Red Hat (now a fully owned subsidiary of IBM) has experimented with building a business model for operating system deployment and distribution that looks, feels, and acts like a proprietary one, but nonetheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms.

          • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
            71·
            10 months ago

            I know that it’s a joke, but find me a distro that doesn’t include any proprietary blobs.

            • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
              61·
              10 months ago

              I think there are a few GNU extremist distros that don’t package drivers with blobs. They don’t even boot on some CPUs if your motherboard hasn’t had the necessary microcode patches, lots of hardware simply doesn’t work (WiFi, Bluetooth, sound, sometimes even ethernet), but they’re fully open.

              I have no idea how Linux-Libre is doing. I think Guix also had a Linux distro that refuses blobs by default. Most reviews end with “the WiFi doesn’t work but it was nice experiment”, it seems.

            • Hapbt@mastodon.social
              62·
              10 months ago

              @Dehydrated this is my pet peeve everytime i try to discuss anything about linux someone interrupts me about how SOME COMPONENT is proprietary
              like yeah, the keyboard on the laptop is proprietary, so are all the ICs, come on…

              • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
                8·
                10 months ago

                All the hardware is proprietary. The CPU, the ME in the CPU, the chipset on the mainboard, the BIOS, the RAM and SSD controllers, the TPM and everything else. Even the damn battery controller hardware and software are proprietary. It really doesn’t matter though.

                • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
                  43·
                  10 months ago

                  I mean we have a monolithic kernel, with every single line of code running as root, that contains proprietary garbage. Thats even worse than Windows if you ask me, where you can see the drivers processes, which means they are seperate processes.

                  I will soon compile my own kernel, because I dont really feel good with running such a bloated piece of bad code on my standard intel laptop.