Long time Fedora user here. Love it. It's so clean and generic. No fuss, no bullshit.
The workstation build they have worked on for a few releases now was a real boon.
Just like OSX, I just get on with it, and I don't notice it.
The workstation build they have worked on for a few releases now was a real boon.
Just like OSX, I just get on with it, and I don't notice it.
I'm actually mildly surprised there's not an unofficial "spin" that addresses these IP-related limitations the way various distros like Mint address various Ubuntu pain points.
CentOS was packaged and shipping (I know it wasn't redhat owned, but they are binary compatible, right?) with the elliptic curve options enabled.
I'm still running Fedora 21 on my machine at home, I've been using Fedup to upgrade since Fedora 17 and it's still working! but this has caused enough doubt about their intentions that I may end up replacing my distro.
If you don't like it, change US law.
Sure, but if I was "Tom "spot" Callaway" I'd lose my patience a bit. If things are bunged up in legal what's he to do. I thought he did a reasonable job of trying to keep the bug report on-topic whilst fending off the tin foil hatters and some generally quite rude individuals adding nothing to that thread.
It's just legal fear. It may be justified or not (probably not, as this feature is now enabled), but I don't see the reason to invoke malice.
Why the tinfoil hattery? This is hardly the first time Fedora has refused to ship patent-encumbered software and it won't be the last.
as an aside: 6 YEARS is an insane lead time to check the patents usability.
Does anyone know if OpenSSL was intentionally crippled in CentOS at the time of this thread?