To clarify, this is related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux the distro, not Red Hat the company. Fedora 29 (released a few days ago) has a KDE spin, and the project has made no mention of discontinuing that. https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html
Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat (but not on RHEL or Fedora).
Somewhat off topic, but what's the reaction at Red Hat been about the IBM deal? I live in North Carolina and have been looking for jobs lately; I had been seriously considering Red Hat before the deal was announced, but I'm not sure what to think. I was hoping to go somewhere that offered more stability than a startup, but with the uncertainty around what IBM's plans are, I'm not sure that's the case for Red Hat at the moment.
Or, maybe the service is 4.66 times as good as Amazon S3?
Or, the 14th letter of the alphabet is N. If we swap that for 14 we get "CN", which is the top-level domain for China, which is most certainly not in France.
The conspiracy theory possibilities are endless! ;)
This is a really cool start! In the future, I'd love to be able to set preferences and save them to local storage. (For example, it would be nice to be able to set date formatting or location.) I know I could grab a copy of the code and then change those things myself, but then upgrades would be a pain. Overall, though, good stuff!
Exciting stuff! If you're already on Aurora, when you auto-update to developer edition, you'll switch over to the new dev profile and your bookmarks and settings will be gone. You can get at those by opening the profile manager and switching back to the default profile, or by using a stable version of Firefox.
In my case this was unnecessary and the update to Developer Edition preserved everything. Might have something to do with the fact that I already make use of multiple profiles.
EDIT: Wait! The default profile was used when clicking "Restart" from within the updater, but when closing and reopening the browser manually it did indeed start up with a new profile.
You don't need to manually fiddle with profiles, just untick "Allow Firefox Developer Edition and Firefox to run at the same time" in settings to go back to your old profile rather than the segregated one
Sublime Text isn't free; it's sold on the honor system:
"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."
The developer could try to enforce this rule by building in DRM or by threatening legal action, but those things would make for a pretty crappy user experience. Instead, the author chose to do the right thing by users and provide an evaluation version with no restrictions.
Legally and technically, you can certainly use Sublime Text without paying for it. To me, though, using Sublime Text for your everyday work without paying for it is the ethical equivalent of using a cracked version of Photoshop.
Are you sure it's the honor system? It seems to me more like a clever move to disseminate the software so that people are more likely to pay, particularly since he explicitly defines "continued use" as being whatever timeframe the user wants.
Adobe's Photoshop license doesn't do anything like this. If you crack it, you're breaking the rules.
I think it's a gray area, but it's undeniably true that paying for a license is a respectful thing to do at the very least.
Well, there's no enforcement aside from your own conscience (or peer pressure, if that applies to you) so yes, it's an honor system. That doesn't stop it from also being a marketing move.
Yeah, I think the system likely works well. It didn't take me very long while using it until I decided I should support the developer, if anything to keep it alive.
Personally, I find the "that" variable to be a little confusing. A developer looking at the code might wonder whether "that" is the plugin, a DOM element, or something else. To make the code a little clearer, you could use something like "elem" to represent the element on which the plugin has been called, and "plugin" to represent the plugin itself.
Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat (but not on RHEL or Fedora).