Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

4 of 380 comments (clear)

  1. Alan Cox rants on G+! Film at 11! by neiras · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this news? Slashdot already covered F18's wacky installer.

    F18 is a bleeding-edge testing distribution. People who use bleeding-edge testing distributions should expect the odd glitch. New things get tried in Fedora. Some of them are great; some of them are dubious. It's always been this way. This is surely not news.

    We're using F18 here on all our desktop machines; there have been zero issues. The installer was a "WTF? Oh, got it." inconvenience the first time around.

    Thanks for the kernels, AC, and you can say what you like, but people whose OS installs get screwed up tend to be louder than those for whom things just work. I wonder if he even bothered to report a bug. Probably not.

  2. Re:Ubuntu, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These people have lives.

  3. Duuuh. by lophophore · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Duuuh.

    Never, ever, switch to a Fedora release until it has been out for at least 6 weeks.

    I consider Fedora to be (at best) beta-test RHEL. I've been using it for years, and I can tell you, it *always* sucks at release. Always. Give it a month or two for the worst bugs to get addressed, then install it.

    Despite its warts, I'll take Fedora 18 for $0 over Windows 8 any day.

    --
    there are 3 kinds of people:
    * those who can count
    * those who can't
  4. Re:Ubuntu, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Alan Cox doesn't have to pretend to be 1337 so there's no point in him using Arch.