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Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

Posted by Zonk on from the one-unhappy-penguin dept.

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.'"

2 of 608 comments (clear)

  1. This just in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eric "ass" Raymond is still a self-important arrogant gas-baron.

  2. Windows, Mac, And Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And new app is released for Windows and a person goes to its webpage and clicks download. And doubleclicks on an installer and the app is ready to go.

    And new app is released for OS X and a person goes to its webpage and clicks download. And drags the app to where the like and the app is ready to go.

    On Linux you wait around for someone to 'package' the app and upload it to a repository so that Linux users can then download it along with a million other packages that app needs.

    WTF?

    For what? So every little distro can scatter config and app files all over the harddrive in a slightly different way?

    Funny how you never hear Windows or Mac users wishing for package managers and app repositories...Just like you never hear Windows or Mac users looking to make their desktop look and function like KDE or Gnome...