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Microsoft rebases Azure Linux on Fedora as Fedora drops Deepin

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Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped

Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend

Microsoft has announced a new, Fedora-based Linux distro for Azure VMs,while Fedora has consigned the Deepin desktop to the bin.

Fedora decided to remove a component maintained outside Red Hat. In the same week, another external company - granted, a slightly better-known one - decided to rebase one of its projects onto Fedora as its upstream distro. It’s the circle of life, or something.

Fedora 💔Deepin

Seven years after it added the Deepin Desktop Environment in Fedora 30, Tuesday's FESCo meeting decided to drop Deepin from the distro. The minutes say:

AGREED: Retire all packages maintained by the deepinde-siggroup

The decision comes one year after the project called for a securityreview of the Deepin Desktop Environment, after openSUSE dropped the desktop following a negative security assessment. We reportedon...

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