Eric Raymond(catb fame) Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

[freebird]

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.'"

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/22/207231.shtml
http://open.itworld.com/4917/070222fedora/page_1.html

debian GNU/Linux and its package maintaining technology are the best.dpkg,apt and a comon wrapper called wajig

[praka123]

this ESR guy he is really smart,afaik he's collaborating with Linspire and now there is some sort of deal going btw Ubuntu and Linspire and if we read it all together-we can understand this is simply a blasphemy from ESR sides.
Fedora users-Ur distro is one of the best...afaik RPM pkg manger is undergoing some tweaks...leave ESR's comments down. this time his words are illogical!

[mediator]

^^Ahh! Thanx for the nice n soothing words brother!

[eddie]

'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,'

Isn't this kind of true? I mean...like a few years ago the only distro people knew was RedHat but now everyone is talking about Ubuntu and openSUSE. Do you people think Fedora is at the same position that RedHat once, very proudly, held?

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Fedora Devs Say Goodbye To Eric Raymond

When Eric Raymond announced his departure on the Fedora Core developer mailing list, the developers returned with some interesting responses. Is Raymond really disappointed with the Fedora distribution, or is he simply making the change to Ubuntu for his new boss over at Linspire?

When Eric Raymond announced on the Fedora Core developer mailing list that he was switching to Ubuntu, he lodged several complaints about Fedora Core that, in view of the developer responses, seem fairly empty, and possibly even self-serving. In response, several developers not only answered Raymond's complaints, but also pointed out several contradictions and failures on his part. Several developers pointed out the relation between Raymond being hired by Linspire, and his switch to Ubuntu. For those still unaware, Linspire and Ubuntu are now working together - Linspire will be based on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu will use CNR.
While Eric complained about Fedora Core lacking non-libre multimedia capabilities out of the box, the developers replied that Fedora Core is (a) meant to include only libre software by default, and (b) is geared more toward server environments than desktops. Some pointed out that Fedora has also continued to work on the desktop as well, minus non-libre multimedia codecs, which can be easily downloaded from various repositories around the Internet. In fact, one developer pointed Raymond to a link demonstrating the Fedora project was, in fact, working on providing a solution to the codec problem without compromising the project's libre-oriented values.
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