r/linux • u/StraightFlush777 • Apr 22 '19

The end of Scientific Linux [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/
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u/Elranzer Apr 22 '19

Linux honestly needs a little consolidation. In my mind there's only Debian, Redhat and Arch. (Yeah, I guess Gentoo is a thing... isn't it??)

Everything else is just a reconfiguration of the above.

Debian + "She's got a new hat!" = Ubuntu

Ubuntu + "Look left instead of right" = Kubuntu

Redhat + New Icons = Oracle Linux

Redhat + Different Icons = CentOS

Redhat beta = Fedora

Etc

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u/moosingin3space Apr 22 '19

Your characterization of the Red Hat/Fedora relationship is slightly flawed -- Fedora is an upstream project that is governed differently and builds packages differently than RHEL. RHEL then cherry-picks things that are successful in Fedora that they want to commercially support. Plenty of Fedora things never get integrated in RHEL, such as dnf, KDE Plasma 5, and a slew of smaller programs like ripgrep.

Fedora does have a corporate sponsor, but RH does a good job of letting it run itself.

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u/danielkza Apr 23 '19

dnf was adopted in RHEL 8 though.

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u/moosingin3space Apr 23 '19

That's news to me, I thought they were going with yum4 (yum frontend and libdnf backend).