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    IBM to acquire Confluent

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    443 points abd12 | 13 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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    hadrien01 ◴[08 Dec 25 14:48 UTC] No.46192816[source]▶
    Genuine question: how did the IBM acquisitions of Red Hat and HashiCorp turn out?

    For Red Hat, there's no longer an official "public" distribution of RHEL, but apart from that they seemingly have been left alone and able to continue to develop their own products. But that's only my POV as a user of OSS Red Hat products at home and of RHEL and OpenShift at work.

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    1. EarthIsHome ◴[08 Dec 25 14:52 UTC] No.46192864[source]▶
    Gnome has stagnated significantly.
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    2. tannhaeuser ◴[08 Dec 25 14:56 UTC] No.46192910[source]▶
    If only it had stagnated around gnome 2.0.
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    3. throw10920 ◴[08 Dec 25 15:06 UTC] No.46193041[source]▶
    Could that be due to increased popularity of KDE?
    4. phkahler ◴[08 Dec 25 15:09 UTC] No.46193086[source]▶
    >> Gnome has stagnated significantly.

    GTK is still alive. It seems like Cosmic desktop with GTK apps will be a reasonable path forward. Of course there's KDE and QT, but I mean as an alternative to those.

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    5. shrubble ◴[08 Dec 25 15:12 UTC] No.46193117[source]▶
    The Gnome desktop that shipped with Solaris over two decades ago is just as useful, possibly more useful, as the tablet-oriented hamburger menu UI of today.

    Yes, two decades: https://adtmag.com/articles/2003/08/04/solaris-gets-a-gnome-...

    6. JeremyNT ◴[08 Dec 25 15:59 UTC] No.46193832[source]▶
    I'm not sure this is bad? It's still maintained, and it isn't like there are frequent revolutions in UI design - if it works, it works.

    Slow and boring is a pretty nice place to be.

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    7. jamespo ◴[08 Dec 25 16:16 UTC] No.46194089[source]▶
    Linux on the desktop isn't a lucrative business
    8. aprilnya ◴[09 Dec 25 00:28 UTC] No.46199745[source]▶
    Has it? I feel like Gnome has made great progress the last few years
    9. spookie ◴[09 Dec 25 02:31 UTC] No.46200599[source]▶
    Cosmic isn't there yet. I don't use GNOME but at least it works.
    10. tristan957 ◴[09 Dec 25 04:31 UTC] No.46201248[source]▶
    The people on the Red Hat desktop team that work on GNOME are killing it. I think you might not be paying attention. Not every change is visible.
    11. tristan957 ◴[09 Dec 25 04:32 UTC] No.46201252[source]▶
    MATE exists. You can use it right now.
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    12. nextaccountic ◴[09 Dec 25 07:19 UTC] No.46202167{3}[source]▶
    I do. It's great that the UI is stagnated, but unfortunately the UX is too. Things like bluetooth not being integrated with the DE, and various details that we take for granted not working correctly
    13. maxloh ◴[11 Dec 25 07:42 UTC] No.46228712[source]▶
    It doesn't really work for me. The first thing I always do with it is installing a taskbar extension.