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Alan Cox: Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro," Switches To Ubuntu
An anonymous reader writes "Linux kernel developer veteran Alan Cox has lashed out at Red Hat's recent release of Fedora 18. Cox posted comments to his Google+ page saying 'Fedora 18 seems to be the worst Red Hat distro I've ever seen.' He encountered numerous problems with Fedora 18 and then decided to switch to Ubuntu."
They can't all be the worst!
Welcome Alan! We've been waiting for you.
ONE OF US!! ONE OF US!!
The flamewar is strong with these ones.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
If you weren't anon, I'd mod this comment up so hard you'd get an orgasm that could be felt from across the world.
Nobody cares what the CAPTCHA for your post was.
So he's switched from the "Worst Red Hat Distro" to the worst Debian distro. Got it.
I don't know - pure Debian tends to be a bit conservative and lagging. Have they made the switch to ELF yet?
I guess you haven't tried Debian experimental.
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From his G+ page:
Ah, I get it. It's like how sleeping with just one member of the same sex doesn't 'switch you to gay'. You see, just like with sexuality there can be degrees of distro use, it doesn't have to be so black and white -- you don't have to be just a Fedora or Ubuntu user, you could be Bi-distro. Ah, but it doesn't even end there: You could even enjoy OS hybrids like that Arch/BSD chick with a dick, or you can even use Wubi to run GNU/Linux inside Windows, if you're more the man with a clam type.
As a kernel developer, he's beyond mere experimenting; Alan Cox is a connoisseur of all flavors...
With a name like that, would you expect any less?
Dear Alan: Thank you for your comments. You are free to download the source, make any fixes you deem appropriate, and send us back the patches.
What, isn't that the Linux Way?
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Personally I don't really like the Debian distributions and prefer the Fedora/Redhat ones since I have never had many problems with Fedora Core 7 and have updated regularly all the way to Fedora 18 which IMHO is actually the best distribution to date although I would say that the new installer is a little bit cosmetically challenged, however it does what it is supposed to do and it does it well. I do think Alan Cox's statement saying that the new installer is unusable is totally wrong, although I do agree it is different.
I'm running a Redmond distribution, Windows 7 I think it's called. It's not bad, reasonably stable, the installer works just fine, has a nice polished look to it, and seems to have built-in Wine support because Office runs fine on it. I've heard it's been forked into something called Metro/Win8 which is pretty unpleasant, so I'll be sticking with the current distro for awhile.
Selection is similar to the choice of "Would sir like a straightjacket or a frontal lobotomy?"
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
I'm running a Redmond distribution, Windows 7 I think it's called. It's not bad, reasonably stable, the installer works just fine, has a nice polished look to it, and seems to have built-in Wine support because Office runs fine on it. I've heard it's been forked into something called Metro/Win8 which is pretty unpleasant, so I'll be sticking with the current distro for awhile.
I tried that same distribution, I tried really hard to like it, I really did, but it just didn't work out. After a couple of weeks of constant irritations like being nagged about viruses and rebooting in the middle of important work I just gave up. That Windows distribution is trying hard to imitate Linux but just can't seem to get the details right.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
At least he didn't switch to Windows 8. Then he'd eventually give up and just go Amish.
Alan Cox: "Just finished compiling, looks good so far."
In the old days we had a choice of shock therapy!
Slackware is still available!