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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by irateswami on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:35PM (#25401939)
Ubuntu is seriously an amazing achievement and while I've used plenty of distros, nothing compares in terms of getting work done. I'm not an OS engineer and have no desire to get granular with my OS, I just want to be able to load it up and do stuff. The linux community, however, is loaded with OS-enthusiasts who don't understand the difference between using a tool and fetishizing it.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by randomsearch on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:02PM (#25402628)
Recently I’ve been using Linux more, as I used to. Have to say Ubuntu remains the most polished and useful of the distro’s overall. Just works most of the time.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by ohazi on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:50PM (#25402912)
Maybe, but Ubuntu does have drama like the Amazon search link thing and now uncontrollable auto-updating snap packages, which arguably seem like an absolutely terrible idea for any sort of server.

For almost everything, Debian works just as well as Ubuntu, but it's more boring and has less drama.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by symlinkk on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:03PM (#25402992)
Except for the fact that they don’t include proprietary drivers in the official install image.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by ghaff on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:07PM (#25403024)
Well, that's pretty much the tradeoff you make when you use a distro that is aggressively free software.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by randomsearch on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:00PM (#25403320)
Yeah I wasn’t worrying about that. I don’t think proprietary software is evil.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by ghaff on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:20PM (#25403422)
I don't either but it's a factor that distros take into account.
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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by bsd44 on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:37AM (#25418726)
They offer non-free images on their website.
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