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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.'"

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  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...

  3. I quit Linux because of Fedora by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I switched back to XP. I develop on Linux over ssh. Fedora was so bad it's turned me off Linux as a desktop FOREVER. I don't have weekends to devote to configuring insanely basic things that WORK out of the box in XP. F.U. Alan Cox. You little beotch.

    Go Eric.

  4. Re:Here's an idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Instead of dumping RedHat/Fedora, he should switch to RHEL and purchase the support he needs.


    OMFG. I can't believe you actually said that like you believe it.

    This illustrates perfectly the problem with RedsHat.

    - take a free open source product
    - mangle it
    - have the gall to ask for money for it
    - only release a half assed, crippled version of the mangled product as open source (Fedora)
    - hope people will be stupid enough to fall for the trick

    You fell for it hook line and sinker. RedHat are FOSS parasites, the worst kind.

    Why would I want to pay for an broken, non standards compliant operating system when there are plenty of completely free ones with no strings attached that actually work? (unlike Fedora).

    RedHat has been doing nothing but harm to the Linux community for years now. Its high time they got the boot.

    I hate RedHat far worse than anyone hates Microsoft. Redhat is pure evil.
  5. UUUUUUbbbbuuuuuubbbbbttttttuuuuuuu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    UUUUUUUUUUbbbbuuuuuuuuunnnnnttttttoooooooooooooooo oooooo

    Mooooooooooooooo!

  6. Re:Fedora Responds by byolinux · · Score: -1, Troll

    ESR is nothing more than a troll. Everyone should see this as the reason they needed to ignore him forever more.

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