Linux User Space

How did your favorite Linux distribution get its start? Join us and find out! Linux User Space is hosted by Leo and Dan, and every two weeks we deep dive into the history of Linux distributions and the things that matter to us. Episodes drop every other Monday.

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Episode 4:01: RHEL Tough Choices


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
  • Gentoo check in - Use the Handbook! The wiki is just great in general.
  • Lemmy
  • The Linux User Space Lemmy instance
  • feddit's community browser
  • Another Lemmy explorer
Announcements
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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
More Announcements
  • Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
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
Housekeeping

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Linux Matters Podcast
  • Website
  • YouTube
  • RSS feed
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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