Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael D. Setzer II via users writes: Wonder if they understand that Fedora is the leading platform for Redhat future development. So, are they just looking at Fedora as a separate environment without understanding that it will probable be in future Redhat and probable other distros of Linux.

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:24:57 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > That's probably why more are > going to Flatpak and/or Snap for distribution Appimage is another technique I've encountered. I'm running the new cura 12.0 via an appimage file now. ___ users

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
Proprietary applications tend to have trouble with the wide variety of Linux distributions and their variance. That's probably why more are going to Flatpak and/or Snap for distribution, to be able to distribute a single image that runs on Linux. Those also have an advantage of running

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
nothing about the real world environment.. On 14 Nov 2021 at 17:27, John Westerdale wrote: From: John Westerdale Date sent: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:27:02 -0500 Subject:Re: Slack dropping Fedora support To: Community support for Fedora users Send reply to: Community support for Fedora

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Clifford Snow
This is really unfortunate. I'm part of a large US OpenStreetMap community on Slack. I'm also on OSM groups on Forums, Telegram and was on Discord. None are designed to support large diverse communities. Note we are going to create an instance of Discourse. But obviously even if the community

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread John Westerdale
Got this from Slack. Fedora users represented a very small number of our user base. In order to ensure we're able to deliver the best possible experience for the largest number of users, it is necessary for Slack to focus our efforts and narrow our scope. Given the small number of users, we were

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/14/21 10:07, SternData wrote: This just popped up on Slack:  "Note: Starting March 1, 2022, Slack will no longer support Fedora Linux distributions." Anyone know what's going on?  And maybe interested in engaging them on Twitter @slackhq to ask for reconsideration? There was a thread

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Richard
> Date: Sunday, November 14, 2021 11:22:03 -0800 > From: Clifford Snow > > I haven't seen anything on Slack indicating that the rpm will no > longer be supported. Where did this notice pop up? > > Their download page still has rpm downloads for Fedora. They also > have snap packages. I haven't

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 10:07 AM SternData wrote: > This just popped up on Slack: "Note: Starting March 1, 2022, Slack will > no longer support Fedora Linux distributions." > > Anyone know what's going on? And maybe interested in engaging them on > Twitter @slackhq to ask for reconsideration?

Re: Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:07:19 -0600 SternData wrote: > Anyone know what's going on? And maybe interested in engaging them on > Twitter @slackhq to ask for reconsideration? Perhaps they finally figured out their fedora app is about 100 times more irritating than their web interface? :-). I tried

Slack dropping Fedora support

2021-11-14 Thread SternData
This just popped up on Slack: "Note: Starting March 1, 2022, Slack will no longer support Fedora Linux distributions." Anyone know what's going on? And maybe interested in engaging them on Twitter @slackhq to ask for reconsideration? -- -- Steve