What characterizes Linux culture?

[daniel.m.tripp (Dan Tripp)]

@thomasm

Canonical, Red Hat, Zorin Pro, and SUSE. Some more or less paranoid about Deepin, Ventoy, and AduinOS for ties to CCP

None of these things bother me - my job is about 90% Red Hat server, some Oracle Linux and some Solaris… but I prefer Canonical to Red Hat anyway, using Fedora or Red Hat (or CentOS) feels like work … I had no idea that Ventoy had ties to CCP - do they? I just looked up the WikiPedia entry for Ventoy - the only contentious thing mentioned was some proprietary binary blobs…

@pdecker

Oracle was not originally developed by Oracle. They acquired it.

(sic)

And Oracle have been slowly enshittifying VirtualBox… Has be $$$ paid for if using professionally e.g. in a corporate environment for business purposes… Oracle are BRILLIANT at enshittification… if you hadn’t guessed: I don’t like Oracle… Never have really… Was a big fan of Sun, and their support was the BEST service I’ve ever used - soon as Oracle took them over - it plummetted…

Never used Vagrant, but heaps of developers use it in businesses, leveraged against VirtualBox… Oracle have probably killed it…

Red Hat is now part of IBM - they’re not great - but - they don’t seem to be enshittifying the RHEL stuff - so I’m glad I jumped from VBox to KVM / virt-manager…

[pdecker]

Agree on all points.

Prefer Ubuntu.

CentOS mostly for work in the past, now Alma (not my choice). I have thrown in Ubuntu when I could arrange it.

Never an Oracle fan. I have to support one set of Oracle servers due to it being one of the supported platforms for some specific software, Informatica.

Sun hardware was awesome. We “recently” decommissioned some Sun servers. It was maybe 8 years ago or so when we moved out of a datacenter. I have no doubt they would still be running if we had kept them.