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Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu
narramissic writes "After 13 years as a loyal Red Hat user, Eric Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, is switching to the Ubuntu distribution. In a message distributed to Linux mailing lists and news organizations, Raymond cited technical issues with Red Hat, such as the way repositories are maintained, the submission process and 'stagnant' development of Red Hat's packaging technology, as well as governance problems, the failure to gain desktop market share and the failure to include proprietary media formats. 'Over the last five years, I've watched Red Hat/Fedora throw away what was at one time a near-unassailable lead in technical prowess, market share and community prestige,' Raymond wrote. 'The blunders have been legion on both technical and political levels.'"
does it run linux? .....oh...sorry...got ahead of myself.
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I've certainly seen the same thing. I know about 100 people who have switched to OS X in the last few years and I know 1 person who went back to Linux. Most of these people are Linux developers, writing software for Linux servers, using OS X desktops. For myself, I rely upon OS X more and more on the desktop and I migrated my Linux desktop from a separate box running Fedora to a Kubuntu install in a VM on top of OS X. The list of desktop apps I still use it for has shrunk to pretty much gimp, inkscape, and xpdf.
You might. I don't.
You know, I've switched OSes a few times. I've expressed disappointment in one and gone to another. Sometimes you just end up more comfortable in another platform. Of course, you might use one incident as some kind of last straw, but it's not really the case. You tolerated that for a long time. It's more telling that you care about the incident, not that the incident in any way validates your beliefs.
The same thing is going on here.
The thing that bothers me is... I don't know why I'm expected to care. I know ESR is a widely known figure in the OSS community, one who did much of the political footwork in the late nineties, but he (a) isn't as influential (or so I thought) as he once was, and (b) he's talking about switching from RedHat (or whatever it's called today) to Fedora. As if this is a major thing.
This really is egomania and celebritymania at its finest. There is no reason this should be on the front page. This is not a significant switch by any stretch of the imagination. Quite frankly, Alan Cox shouldn't even care about this. I clicked on the article thinking there was more to it than ESR changing his distro, but no, quite seriously, that's what's going on here. Why is this news? And why did ESR expect, writing in his most pompous "It's the end of the world for RedHat because I'm not using it any more" tone, it to be news?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.