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I've never touched it myself, and people are screaming about the recent redhat change to it's development cycle. Just curious to know how much if an impact it actually makes on the community. I almost NEVER see it used in a home desktop/gaming set up

I've never touched it myself, and people are screaming about the recent redhat change to it's development cycle. Just curious to know how much if an impact it actually makes on the community. I almost NEVER see it used in a home desktop/gaming set up

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Thanks for the clarification. Glad to see you moved over here. Always like seeing your weekly musician threads

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Also, CentOS is usable as a desktop OS. It's usually in the 'workstation' class, where stability is the goal. It obviously doesn't get the latest and newest shiny versions of applications, but it gets security and bug fixes back-ported. The rock-solid stability and large support life made it a legendary distro. It's a goddamned shame that Red Hat is butchering it, but IBM owns Red Hat now and so I'd expect some stupid decisions from them.

I suspect they want to push more people into RHEL, with a paid support contract. That's my hunch, but it's just speculation. I have no way to confirm it and it's not like IBM lets me into the meetings that decide these things, regardless of how many shares I own. (I do own some of IBM's stock.)

I've lately been spending my time helping out on the various Linux forums. I even have started my own Linux site - which I'll likely start sharing soon. I'd all but ceased participation on Voat (except for the guitar thread). I'm not sure what will happen here with my activities on Poal. We shall see... Right now, I have some time-consuming Linux obligations, including testing the next version of an official Ubuntu flavor.

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Well, regardless, it makes me happier than you know to see folks active in the Linux sub here. Voat's was decently active, and I was worried I've have to go to reddit for linux talk/news. That place makes my butthole itch just thinking about it

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I tried Reddit for a while. It was just too easy. When I stopped participating, I had months of free Reddit Gold, like almost four months, from just a month or so of activity. There was no challenge there.