Notices tagged with redhat, page 2

To the „but Linux is complicated“ and the (IMHO weird) new „being able to use Linux is a sign of privilege“ crowd: We just had #Girlsday in our #Munich #RedHat office with 20+ 10-12yr old girls that loved to explore the 10 XO (OLPC - One Laptop Per Child) from 2007(!) running Fedora and the Sugar UI we had them work with. No explanations needed. They had a blast.

Not really. GPL licenced software is still getting lifted and implemented into proprietary projects without paying dividends back to the maintainers that are developing the underlying project.

That is to say nothing of people and their inability to separate their politics from the free and open source projects they participate in, giving rise to a gatekeeping and exclusionary environments through policies intended to promote diversity and inclusion.

@icedquinn @djsumdog @freemo

#Hyprland, #FOSS, #FreeSoftware, #OpenSource, #OSS, #Wayland, #FreeDesktop, #RedHat, #FreedomOfSpeech, #FreedomOfExpression, #Politics.

xz-Attacke: Hintertür enträtselt, weitere Details zu betroffenen Distros

Experten halten die Hintertür in liblzma für den bis dato ausgeklügeltesten Supplychain-Angriff. Er erlaubt Angreifern, aus der Ferne Kommandos einzuschleusen.

https://www.heise.de/news/xz-Attacke-Hintertuer-entraetselt-weitere-Details-zu-betroffenen-Distros-9671588.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Debian #Fedora #Linux #LinuxDistribution #OpenSource #Opensuse #RedHat #Security #SSH #Ubuntu #news

APROPOS OF NOTHING
am annoyed with the war of software packaging attrition #Ubuntu & #RedHat have with their snaps and flatpaks.

am, yet again, running all over the web to find an unabandoned PPA because i cannot properly run software that was developed as a .deb but now the only maintained version is encased in docker-like #Linux fuckery.

#Zotero is now the latest of a growing list: #LibreOffice, #Firefox, #GIMP, #Inkscape, #Calibre, #Keypass, #Geany, #Freetube.

WTF.

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.

#FOSS #openSource #accessibility #a11y #linux #fedora #ubuntu #ibm #redHat #canonical

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.

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/425#issuecomment-1951360916

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? 🤔)

#linux #accessibility #a11y #orca #GNOME #wayland #fedora #ubuntu #RedHat

Jedes Mal, wenn ich mir ein #RedHat Security Advisory anschaue, denke ich mir: Ihr werdet dafür bezahlt Sicherheitskücken zu schließen, warum macht ihr es nicht?

Regarding #SMTPSmuggling, anyone knows if #Postfix 2.10 is affected? According to #RedHat versions 8 and 9 may be but they're still in investigation and they naturally focus on the more recent versions first. However... #RHEL 7 includes 2.10 and at least smtpd_data_restrictions is a configuration option that is not present... https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-51764

I was at a somewhat similar point with #FreeBSD ports, too. They are rather similar. It's actually now about as easy for me to package for #BSD as it was for #Debian and I was able to reach a point with debian packaging where it was about as quick and easy for me as #RedHat rpms once were before that.

20 years ago on November 6, 2003, Fedora Linux, originating as "Fedora Core," began in 2003.

Originally referred to as "Fedora Core," Fedora Linux forked from Red Hat Linux in 2003. This move came as Red Hat Linux was phased out, enabling Red Hat to focus on its paid server version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Fedora Linux became a community distribution, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux continued as the official Red Hat-supported distribution.

#TechHistory #Fedora #Linux #RedHat

#Automation for Everyone - the why, the who, the how and the value! presented yesterday on the #RedHat #OpenTour by Matti Nieminen and Timo Vilen.

#Ansible @ansible

Given everything that happened to #RedHat under #IBM’s control, it makes me very uneasy that #Microsoft owns #GitHub… I pessimistically predict this will be the next big blow to #OpenSource that we’ll have to recover from.

In tech years, I'm pretty old. I started using Linux when it was easiest to get as a boot image and root image on the Banjo FTP server, maybe ftp.funet.fi. Later, SLS, then Slackware, then FreeBSD, OpenBSD (co-wrote the IP Filter howto)... then #RedHat bought my company. I've subsequently spent more than half my life working at RH, and most of that time running Fedora, since Fedora was a thing. This is not impressive, I've just been here, and that means I have some perspective on #opensource.

It was in this spirit that #Linux distributions took off and the struggle to keep doing this fun hobby in a way that paid for itself became commonplace. Working at #RedHat, who was making ends meet with CD sales, coffee mugs, and the occasional support contract kept those good times going. When #proprietary #unix, by way of SCO, started getting lawsuit crazy, we found the #GPL really did stand up in court. #Groklaw was born, and IP law became something we all learned thanks to PJ, Webbink, etc.

Earlier today at #almalinux we patched CVE-2023-38403 in iperf3 and released it prior to anyone else in the EL-ecosystem. We promptly submitted PRs with #centos and #fedora.

A lot was learned during this process so we can nail down the processes of doing our own patches while contributing upstream and ultimately deliver on our promises from https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

#rhel #redhat

@fedora “If this is a feature you believe people want, make the toggle switches off by default so folks can excitedly tell you how much they want to send data to Fedora/Red Hat/IBM.

Also, is this a feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

…”

2/N

#fedora #surveillance #privacy #ibm #redHat #telemetry

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/07/07/red_hat_open_source/ #RedHat #IBM

@ernie @Motherboard @geerlingguy

From the article, Mike McGrath of #RedHat:

“Something that we’ll continue to work on going forward is making sure that we’re being fair with pricing if we have pricing at all—there’s plenty of free stuff still,” he says. “But we also don’t feel obligated to try to cater to every possible Linux user. There are tons of choices out there. People are welcome to choose what’s best for them.”