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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Old news. Why repeat it? As Fedora folks have explained before, if they need a bunch of proprietary components out of the box, there's OS X. They don't wish to compromise their freedom by delivering binary blobs to /everybody/ in the Red Hat community. Anyway, that's just one explanation (not mine). Other have criticised technical things that ESR did (especially leading to rants about RPM).
- Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm glad this rant came from a respected member of the Linux community (at least E.S.R. used to be well respected, I honestly don't hear much about him anymore). I too used to be a loyal Red Hat user, but when Debian released Potato, it became clear to me that Red Hat couldn't compete anymore. While Debian has caused me a few problems over the years when I've been running Testing or Unstable branches, I have never had the nightmares I used to with Red Hat and upgrading RPMs; even using yum, which in my opinion is just awful.
I've run Debian and Debian based distributions ever since.
I think sometimes it takes a big swat in the back of the head in order to realize that the course you are taking is the wrong one. Hopefully, Mr. Raymond's post will be a catalyst for improvement in the Fedora community. - treehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...and yet, you dugg it.
http://www.digg.com/users/subgeniusd/news/dugg
I guess my beef was that the original source wasn't submitted. But, fair enough.... - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't understand why Ubuntu users feel the need to turn distros into an internal Linux competition.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Inflated egos?
- subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Rather then starting up another long argument thread about Eric Raymond you can just read the last long argument thread:
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Eric_Raymond_dumps_Fedora_after_13_years
There wasn't that easier? - treehead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1> Old news. Why repeat it?
There's a digg entry that links to a Linux.com posting, but there is no link to the entire thread. The responses are just as important as the original post:
http://treehead.net/root/log/2007/04/eric-raymond-ditches-red-hatfedora-for.php
> As Fedora folks have explained before, if they need a bunch of proprietary components out of the box, there's OS X.
Eric made the mistake of addressing the types of software included. His real issue was with RPM, yum, and the repositories.
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