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  • =?UTF-8?B?U29tZW9uZeKAmXM=?= still feeling salty about CentOS.

    From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Feb 21 06:52:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203
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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Feb 21 02:04:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2/21/26 01:52, rbowman wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Centos CAN be a good base for servers -
    the RHEL for people with normal budgets.

    However the Gnome4 desktop mess is very
    off-putting and makes things much more
    difficult than they need to be.

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  • From Lars Poulsen@lars@beagle-ears.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Feb 21 13:35:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2026-02-21, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 2/21/26 01:52, rbowman wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Centos CAN be a good base for servers -
    the RHEL for people with normal budgets.

    However the Gnome4 desktop mess is very
    off-putting and makes things much more
    difficult than they need to be.

    Centos *was* a good base for servers, tracking RHEL without the costly Enterprise subscription, but it has become the Rawhide edition of RHEL.
    --
    Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Feb 21 19:56:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:35:29 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

    On 2026-02-21, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 2/21/26 01:52, rbowman wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Centos CAN be a good base for servers - the RHEL for people with
    normal budgets.

    However the Gnome4 desktop mess is very off-putting and makes things
    much more difficult than they need to be.

    Centos *was* a good base for servers, tracking RHEL without the costly Enterprise subscription, but it has become the Rawhide edition of RHEL.

    The path is Rawhide => Fedora => Centos Stream => RHEL.
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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Feb 22 04:28:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2/21/26 14:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:35:29 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

    On 2026-02-21, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 2/21/26 01:52, rbowman wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Centos CAN be a good base for servers - the RHEL for people with
    normal budgets.

    However the Gnome4 desktop mess is very off-putting and makes things >>> much more difficult than they need to be.

    Centos *was* a good base for servers, tracking RHEL without the costly
    Enterprise subscription, but it has become the Rawhide edition of RHEL.

    The path is Rawhide => Fedora => Centos Stream => RHEL.

    RHEL wants too much money.

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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Feb 22 18:16:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:28:01 -0500, c186282 wrote:

    On 2/21/26 14:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:35:29 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

    On 2026-02-21, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 2/21/26 01:52, rbowman wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Centos CAN be a good base for servers - the RHEL for people with
    normal budgets.

    However the Gnome4 desktop mess is very off-putting and makes
    things much more difficult than they need to be.

    Centos *was* a good base for servers, tracking RHEL without the costly
    Enterprise subscription, but it has become the Rawhide edition of
    RHEL.

    The path is Rawhide => Fedora => Centos Stream => RHEL.

    RHEL wants too much money.

    The path is Rawhide => Fedora => Centos Stream => RHEL => Rocky

    https://rockylinux.org/


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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Feb 22 20:16:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Funny, I just got into it. In case people
    do not want to go to twitter, it is a sign
    with:

    1. A painted Red Baseball Hat, no writing on the hat

    2 This phase above the hat:
    "cant spell hatred without red hat"
    With the word "hatred" in red ink and all in caps.
    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars
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  • From Charlie Gibbs@cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Feb 23 01:07:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2026-02-22, John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> wrote:

    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Funny, I just got into it. In case people
    do not want to go to twitter, it is a sign
    with:

    1. A painted Red Baseball Hat, no writing on the hat

    2 This phase above the hat:
    "cant spell hatred without red hat"
    With the word "hatred" in red ink and all in caps.

    Sign of the times: the first thing I thought of was a
    red hat bearing the words "Make computing great again".
    --
    /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
    \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
    X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
    / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey
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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Feb 23 00:19:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2/22/26 15:16, John McCue wrote:
    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Funny, I just got into it. In case people
    do not want to go to twitter, it is a sign
    with:

    1. A painted Red Baseball Hat, no writing on the hat

    2 This phase above the hat:
    "cant spell hatred without red hat"
    With the word "hatred" in red ink and all in caps.

    Any WONDER you're hated ???

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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Feb 23 08:51:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    At Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:16:04 -0000 (UTC), John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> wrote:

    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203

    Funny, I just got into it. In case people
    do not want to go to twitter, it is a sign
    with:

    1. A painted Red Baseball Hat, no writing on the hat

    2 This phase above the hat:
    "cant spell hatred without red hat"
    With the word "hatred" in red ink and all in caps.

    Way back in the days of yore, Red Hat would rent a hotel suite
    at trade shows. At one of them, I got a hat.

    It is a red, Red Hat, hat. (Although, the color is darker,
    like burgundy, with a gray-green bill.)

    Don't ask me to produce it though, it's buried in a box in the
    basement.
    --
    -v ASUS TUF DASH F15 x86_64 Mem: 15.9G
    OS: Linux 6.14.0-37-generic D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (6G) 580.126.09
    "Pound forehead on keyboard to continue."
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