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Alan Cox: Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro," Switches To Ubuntu

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-sir-I-don't-like-it dept.

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."

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  1. Come on, Alan ;( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can't all be the worst!

    1. Re:Come on, Alan ;( by lennier · · Score: 5, Funny

      They can't all be the worst!

      You might very well think that, but then you encounter the non-Euclidean badness that is Unity/Gnome3 and all sanity goes out the window.

      A million distributions, all simultaneously worse than each other is entirely possible with the way that Linux desktop development is trending at the moment.

      --
      You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
  2. Darkside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome Alan! We've been waiting for you.

      ONE OF US!! ONE OF US!!

  3. Worst Debian Distro by seyyah · · Score: 5, Funny

    So he's switched from the "Worst Red Hat Distro" to the worst Debian distro. Got it.

  4. Re:Go Arch by quenda · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know - pure Debian tends to be a bit conservative and lagging. Have they made the switch to ELF yet?

  5. Re:A small addendum (Slashdot slapdown) by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Funny

    From his G+ page:

    (and Slashdot, moving one PC from Fedora with Ubuntu VM to just Ubuntu isn't 'switching to Ubuntu')

    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?