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Fedora members plan on creating a Cosmic Desktop Spin (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There already is an experimental image based on Silverblue with the alpha stage Cosmic Epoch Desktop.

Mainly finetuning and SELinux profiles are needed!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 It's very stable but not extremely outdated, has great security, always supports the newest technologies like Flatpak, Wayland, Pipewire, etc., has good Desktop spins and constantly innovates.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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Its not really proprietary. Developers get the code, and everyone that gets the binaries also gets the code. Thats GPL compliant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Devs get the code but can't redistribute it, so it's proprietary code

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They can look at it and change it, so it is not secret.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's not enough. Still proprietary

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

Were you trying to prove his point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

As shocking as this might be, I think he's agreeing, and offering supplimentary proof