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Hirom, 1 year ago to operating_systems in Following the usual playbook, IBM's Red Hat begins locking down access to it's "open source"

Opensource licenses typically doesn’t require the software to be free, just that the source and modification be made available to users.

Making user pay to access both binaries and source is fair, as long as RedHat keep contributing code to upstream projects.

Hirom, 1 year ago to operating_systems in Going to try Debian 12 when it releases is there anything i should know about Debian in general beforehand?

Thanks

Hirom, 1 year ago to operating_systems in Going to try Debian 12 when it releases is there anything i should know about Debian in general beforehand?

I would recommend switching your apt sources to point to the unstable branch: sid.

Strongly disagree with this. Most users should use Debian stable, or if you needs new versions of specific software, then maybe testing or backports.

Unstable is intented for Debian maintainers, and people who do QC and debug Debian. Unstable means more frequent bugs and breakages, which only makes sense if you’re working on detecting bugs and fixing them before new packages arrive in testing/stable.

Using unstable without being an advanced Debian users is asking for trouble, because you risk more frequent breakages that requires manual intervention and in-depth Debian/Linux knowledge to fix thing. Veteran Linux users may be comfortable with this, but it’s the wrong choice for most new users.