IBM acquired Red Hat

fuuuuuuuuck it...

NEVER!

Friendly reminder IBM has strong historical ties with Microsoft

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Red Hat too. What's your point?

RedHat is not to trust
Boycott Redhat

Stop them before is too late!

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and this is a good thing (for ubuntu)

REDHAT
= 1 PETER
= BABALON
= BOBOBJA
= CHASTE
= DECIMAL
= FTAGHN
= HATRED
= KABBALAH
= MALACHI
= MUSIC
= NMGRM
= PACIFIC
= REBUS
= SEVEN
= STATE
= STEP E
= TACTIC
= TASTE
= THREAD
= URIEL

>34 million
Cheap too

>2018
>Not beta testing for RedHat...

What are you? Twelve?

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>not running Rawhide as your daily driver
What are you? Thirteen?

Reminds me of an underrated album
youtu.be/8ysG1dHgghY

>FTFY
go back

Does this mean that Systemd will finally die and fuck off?

>Billion

Good share

>IBM buying all outstanding Red Hat shares at $190 each
>stock is currently worth $115 each

Jesus fucking christ. Some people had incredibly opportunities to make cash on this deal.

I hope so. Redhat has already been separating their shit from Systemd dependence (flatpak as an example).

Have one in return
youtube.com/watch?v=49vZhQlAEyk

They are not selling ppc, they are selling licenses same as ARM. They effectively moved away from hardware and invested everything in research, cloud and consulting.

Na dude, i earn my living with knowing my way around redhat. Go install gentoo while i go earn some shekels

I fail to see why this is important.
This might have been a big deal in 1995, but it's just another corporate aquisition.
>The kernel won't change, RHEL won't change.
> Only change will be a different set of rich dudes getting paid.
RedHat was always a property company, so why does Jow Forums even give a fuck?

FTFY is a Jow Forums meme, newfriend

Not him but Rawhide legitimately fucked me over twice in the past.
Don't need those 0.000003 seconds of faster startup for firefox.

NOOOOOOOOO

You guys are talking about desktops
This is not what this is about.
Big picture = Sofylayer is all the sudden a player with AWS and Google...
Diverse competition is a good thing. And all the sudden, I'm taking a good hard look at Sofylayer.

Isn't it older than Jow Forums?

Nothing is older than Jow Forums.

2019 IS THE YEAR OF POWER9 ON LINUX!

THANK YOU, BASED IBM!

I remember 9/11 on here.

remember the tears on /n/ when the news of hitlers defeat broke

I need devuan now. Isn't there a "testing" branch?

Yep!

What's wrong with systemd exactly and what are the alternatives?

phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-Potential-Red-Hat
calm your tits, everyone.

>kys iDiot

>not running gentoo with systemd and gnome
What are you? Eleven?

What exactly did IBM ruin in the past?
Inb4; shit they invented themselves.

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Finally we will have a good Linux distro

What, they were upset the trains would stop running on time?

/n/ used to be news. like Jow Forums used to be guro

We're already probably trying to buy canonical. They already have their own softlayer vendor account on our systems and they make our hybrid cloud Ubuntu images to make sure they're quality. Funnily enough this came as a surprise to IBM hybrid cloud employees too. I was the one that posted the info to our company wide slack channel.

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As a Fedora contributor this worries me a lot. Will they pull the plug on Fedora/Centos? Will all my contributions worse naught?
I don't see Fedora surviving without RH resources and employees, there's too much cost and not enough manpower.

You're not helping your case.

>I don't actually know what I'm talking about

s/worse/worth/

Don't
>t. Work on IBM cloud

Why would they, that would be the dumbest thing ever. Free contributions that you can sell support for once you have integrated it into the enterprise OS.

Hard to tell. It might become a project that is in the way of IBM's strategy or not.

The merger makes rather little sense from RedHat's side after all.

Coworker of mine bought in at $130 a couple months back.
40 or so shares if I recall.
Not a bad come up

It makes sense for both. Red Hat has access to a bunch of patents and can incorporate them in dedicated addons to their enterprise OS, they get early access to development hardware of open power and therefor can integrate it faster in the kernel and support it. They get access to much IBM customers and can sell their products.

IBM has again a modern software that they can sell as entire eco system. A processor, mainframe, database, operating system, system-management components such as satellite, cloud stuff like CoreOS, they can kill of jboss to force weblogic, a virtualization technology, etc.

That is great and all but look at what is probably going to die for this to happen.

This is a bummer no matter how you cut it.

Not for IBM

Frank?

>Frank?
No, but please don't name drop people.

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IBM

Did you have any issues with xfce on F29? My theming is broken.

What are the implications of this for systemd?

Are you at Dallas at least? Too many normies here.

Big if true.

>Funnily enough this came as a surprise to IBM hybrid cloud employees too.
Imagine being a Red Hatter and learning from bloomberg.. FML

I mean I'm looking forward to having them as my colleagues.

You posted it in the wrong channel.
That channel is for slack related topics.

Also, hello there.

Look we don't have access to announcements and I figured not everyone watched the news. We got the email to verse over the weekend and there was 0 buildup to this.
Unfortunate too, I would've loved to do some insider trading.

>What is company employee index.
>What is the slack channel that is in screenshot.
>I now know someone I work with browses a Philippino basket weaving site.
You guys lack any type of common sense or security practices.

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>Insider trading.
This is why there was no news or rumors.
Im just excited to be working with openshift in addition to k8s.

>Haha this gif is funny because it's my name and you know who I am
I still think canonical will end up getting bought by us now, supposedly they like working with us

It was one screenshot and I don't care if my colleagues know I browse the tech board for a Brazilian steakhouse discussion forum.

I'm in research so I don't think I'll get any contact with them

OS/2

sadly it won't be me. I am already looking around for something else.

You're not gonna stick around to see if things actually get bad?
I sold my soul to big blue for the obscene pay and even then the work environment is fine. IBM mostly stays out of softlayer so we can do our jobs.

I was a contractor for them and any company that treats contractors that badly I will not work for.

This literally doesn't make a shit of difference. RedHat is godawful shit that is ruining Linux, so we can hope that in the best case scenario they fail miserably, worst, nothing changes.
Redhat was already NSA as fuck.

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So IBM now owns systemd and GNOME and CentOS. Are there any potentially negative ramifications to this?

wtf I love red hat now

Both a CoC in the ass and a IBM's CoC in their mouth.

Time to bail this shitshow for BSD

>I am looking forward to them ruining Swift.
> Swift
Truly, we are in the End Of Days.

Thinking more on this, how does IBM today compare to 6 years ago? Basically red-pill me on IBM

Oh hey, I came here to ask about this. Does this deal effect whether or not I should eventually try Fedora? I know little to nothing about Red Hat but I was going to consider them.

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no, while red hat does employee people to work on fedora there is more none red hat employees working on it,

I am using Fedora as daily driver.. I wonder if IBM will fsck up this OS too like all OSes they were responsible for (oh sad sad story of OS/2) ..

.. tho this time we can fork Fedora if we have to.

You got me
I joined IBM cloud in Dallas, it still has the remnants of the startup culture of softlayer. It feels a lot more like other cushy tech companies rather than the big business blue chip it was previously known as.
Watson barely does anything but our cloud is ridiculously profitable.
It's fine work really.

Friendly reminder that donating to Haiku now has a much better RoI than paying for RHEL in the long term. We need an OS free of IBM and Microsoft cockdickery.

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>Blue dinosaur eats red dinosaur.

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>We're already probably trying to buy canonica
Wonder what the price will be on that one. Microsoft's Azure is big business now. Microsoft will either make their own distribution for cloud customers or make a buy-out and Canonical sounds like a good candidate.

If any of you girls think this sounds odd, it's not. Remember, Microsoft Azure was formerly named "Windows Azure". They've had the common sense to realize that selling services customers want and use is more important than pushing Windows everywhere. IBM didn't buy RH to push Linux on the desktop.

There will be something called Microsoft Linux in the near future - one way or another.

>34 billion
Is RHEL really that big?

15 years ago I was around employee 3000 or something. They've quarupled in size since then AFAICT.

It's about 50% over asking price for the stock, and IBM had to take on a fuckload of debt to do it. This will not end well.