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c/linux · by nobody_1677@lemmy.world · 135d

Mid-life transitions - Christian Hergert officially stepping back from Red Hat and Gnome, so some major Gnome components are currently unmaintained

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/

Note that this post was created two months ago but they only left Red Hat more recently

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digdilem@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 135d (1 reply)

Seriously, wtf Redhat?

Long term and by all accounts, valuable, employee makes a reasonable request for distance working and gets denied? What's more, them leaving has landed them with a serious problem about maintaining key software.

I've not been a big fan of Redhat for some years now, but that's a new IBM smelling low. Their best years are definitely behind them.

arsCynic@piefed.social · 0 pts · 132d

Feel particularly naughty today? Red Hat's got your back:

"Compress the kill cycle with Red Hat Device Edge" ―https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en/_3.pdf

Discovered it via https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116376649888116657

PS make sure you're using Red Hat's init system too. Because the more devices that run it, the more extra features it deserves, and the quicker systemd's CVEs will get fixed, maximizing convenience and security; https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=systemd

wakko@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 135d

Nice. Good for him.

I first met Chris around 2006 or so. Always been a decent person and very dedicated OSS contributor.

pglpm@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 135d (2 replies)

During our in-person visa appointment in Seattle, a shooting involving CBP occurred just a few parking spaces from where we normally park for medical outpatient visits back in Portland. It was covered by the news internationally and you may have read about it. Moments like that have a way of clarifying what matters and how urgently change can feel necessary.

Our visas were approved quickly, which we’re grateful for. We’ll be spending the next year in France, where my wife has other Tibetan family. I’m looking forward to immersing myself in the language and culture and to taking that responsibility seriously. Learning French in mid-life will be humbling, but I’m ready to give it my full focus.

Sounds like a splendid person.

It's also a smart move considering that, with age-verification laws advancing, it looks like a good part of the Linux world will become with time another instrument of mass surveillance.

Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 135d

It's definitely the best way to learn a language, at least for me - throw yourself in and actually use it every day.

grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

Merde, je suis jealoux.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 135d
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 135d
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catdog@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 135d

@ProtonMail@lemmy.ml @protonmail@mastodon.social fyi

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · -3 pts · 135d
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