Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop May See a Fedora Entry
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A Fedora COSMIC Desktop variant? Sounds so cool!
  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
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    9 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 It’s very stable but not extremely outdated, has great security, always supports the newest technologies like Flatpak, Wayland, Pipewire, etc., has good Desktop spins and constantly innovates.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
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      9 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
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        9 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.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
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          9 months ago

          To quote both of you “nevertheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms”.

          Were you trying to prove his point?

          • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Obviously they comply with the GPL, otherwise they would get sued. But Red Hat acts exactly like a proprietary software company. That’s what the quote is trying to say.