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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (www.hadess.net)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Enterprise" linux just feels like something RH invented for their own brand.

You can get LTS releases of a bunch of distros already, and some even offer similar levels of enterprise support (SUSE comes to mind).

I've seen orgs run their own distro/spin or something like Zorin or Ubuntu if they don't want RHEL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a fair point, but I don’t think Linux would be nearly as adopted in the business world without that branding. It’d be some fringe hobbyist thing and BSD would probably have become the server operating system of choice.