I'm back on RHEL for all my computers, I'm done messing around with weird inconsistencies and unexpected changes in updates. I love the innovation of upstream and all the wonderful madness of the bazaar, but I don't have time to drink from the fire hose these days.
I'm super grateful for all the exceptional and hard work the RHEL team at Red Hat does and the Fedora EPEL community. ❤️
So I am helping a bit with preparing a #RedHat#Girlsday at our office in #Munich. And we discussed if we should have some cool thingies to show. So I proposed to bring my 2 #OLPC. The original (and still working!) $100 laptop. Still the cutest little machine that could ...
MongoDB's SSPL (Server Side Public License) sounds like an extremely strong copyleft form of free software license. It sounds like MongoDB took the AGPL and made it much stronger.
Respected "open source" groups have rejected MongoDB's copyleft open source free software license, such as the OSI, RedHat, and Debian.
The criticism of the SSPL do not seem to recognize that it is a copyleft free software license. Is the OSI really a protector of copyleft free software? The politics of these organizations seem to leaning anarcho-capitalist "libertarian".
I don't believe the SSPL will harm any specific field of endeavor. Databases are used in all fields of endeavor. They are usually one of many provided cloud computing services. Cloud computing services are used in most every field of endeavor these days. Even my toothbrush has a cloud database.
By rejecting the SSPL, the OSI, RedHat, Debian have appeared to have ignored the copyleft freedoms that the SSPL guarantees.
I think it’s important to remember that if you’re using the excuse that your software project should not be held to account for being inaccessible because it is released under a free software license what you’re really saying is that disabled people are not welcome in the free software world.
Finalised an invitation to keynote about #OpenSource from a #RedHat perspective in A Coruña in Galicia (Spain) in April. At a big company. So looking forward to that day! #LifeAtRedHat
🐧The History of Red Hat - by Bradford Morgan White
「 The first release of RHS Linux under the newly formed corporation was the “Mother’s Day” release in May of 1995. This was version 1.0 and shipped with the 1.2.8 kernel. The name was now “Red Hat Commercial Linux,” and the logo had changed from a tall, red, top hat to a man walking, carrying a briefcase, holding onto a red hat 」
What it boils down to is having assigned yourself an ownership of the task way forward, resulting in a figurative cookie being licked. Of course, now nobody wants to touch this task/cookie with a 10 m foot pole, because any more collaboration from other parties is essentially obstructed.
I am guilty of trapping myself in a few such situations: job, making and stopping on 90% for a new logo for #Mbin, etc. I wanna learn from these mistakes and give as less cues of ownership as possible. There really isn't much to do to be excellent to each other, unlike to be some hotshot contributor. But as sayings go: the genius is in simple, and one should find beauty in simple.
Was working today on kind of an entry piece for Community Design Team: a logo and new mascot for #Bootc (special type of container).
His name is Bootseef and he's ready to fly through updates! 🚀🚀 Thanks to Madeline Peck and Design Team for the sketches, sources and color choices that inspired me. 👋 I enjoyed doing this particular mascot the most.
@fedora.design@peertube.linuxrocks.online and #CommunityDesignTeam have lots of work on their plate, so I invite aspiring and designers by trade to have a looksie-look in their GitLab issues. @fedora has engineering and other teams worth their gold, making software great, as well.
#redhat has these quarterly "recharge" days and i ,for one, love them. they are almost starting to feel like an internal holiday with people from across the globe wishing each other a "happy recharge" or similar.
in the grand scheme of workers' rights this is really small and perhaps insignificant, but it makes me happy.
Someone please tell me screen reader support isn’t broken on the major Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu that ship Wayland as default.
(I can’t get the modifier key for Orca to work under the latest Fedora Silverblue and, according to the linked issue, it’s because… it just doesn’t work under Wayland? That can’t be right, right? It would mean the major Linux distributions are inaccessible.)
Wow, OK, so I wasn’t missing anything. It looks like the only available screen reader on major Linux distributions is broken and has been for some time.
Lack of accessibility not being a show stopper for an operating systems blows my mind.
We’re talking about distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with enterprise customers (aren’t there some accessibility laws that apply here? 🤔)
@Tengrain@Snowshadow@GottaLaff
I can't wait to see the entire GOP House wearing gold sneakers when they get back from vacation. Hopefully, they'll become the new #RedHat 2024.
In this one, we have #Mozilla switching CEOs after launching a frankly overpriced service, we have #Apple doubling down on their malicious compliance, this time breaking PWAs voluntarily, and we have Wine and DXVK coming to #Android, but closed source:
Congrats to the #Strimzi project for graduating to the #CNCF incubating level! It’s a project I’ve followed for some time, as they have the good taste to bundle the #OPA plugin for fine-grained authorization in #Kafka. A plugin that I co-maintain with Jakub Scholz from #RedHat.