FYI CentOS does not need the blessing of IBM any more than it already needs the blessing of Red Hat. Here's some reading material you might find interesting. https://www.centos.org/about/ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/
Change of management at Red Hat will likely have no serious impact on the development of Fedora and CentOS. On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:32 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:49:48 -0700 > Richard England <[email protected]> dijo: > > >IBM will probably continue their Linux efforts. The better question is > >what will they do with Fedora and the desktop. IBM may have little > >interest in the desktop and their interest in non-revenue initiatives > >like Fedora and CentOS are questionable, as well. > > My take is that Redhat started Fedora as a test bed. I used it for a > couple of years before giving up on it. Yes, it's free, and in some ways > a competitor to the bigger desktop providers like Mint and Ubuntu, but > I couldn't put up with the constant, almost mandatory updates. > Nevertheless, while I bitched about having to update, I had to > recognize that I knew the purpose of Fedora before I started using it - > I got a free desktop in exchange for being Redhat's guinea pig. So, as > long as Redhat needs a place to test new ideas, Fedora will probably > continue. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
