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February 21, 2007 12:14 pm xan General

svu: same situation here. This latest ESR chapter is the last nail in the coffin for me though (”ha ha only serious”), I’m now all set to install Fedora 7 on my powerbook when it’s released. I actually considered moving to Fedora 5 one year ago, but the default install was so broken (X hangs, the updater going totally bonkers eating all my RAM, etc) that I went back crying to Ubuntu. This time I think I’ll stick to it and report all the problems I have like a good boy.

When I started using Linux 9 years ago, I think I basically thought ESR was a pretty cool guy. I wonder if the radically different opinion I have of him now means that he has changed a lot, that I’ve changed a lot, or actually both.

PS: gotta love the midget sex spam I get on the blog since I’m syndicated on the planet.

6 Responses

  1. Stuart Ballard Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 5:08 am

    You’re using Ubuntu, and looking for a distro to move towards that’s more focused on Free Software and less inclined towards ESR’s ideas of what’s important… and Fedora is the choice that immediately springs to mind?

    Might I suggest considering an option a little closer in heritage to what you’re using now…

  2. Xan Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 5:30 am

    I used Debian for a long time before switching to Ubuntu, but I’m actually much happier since I use a distro with time-based releases. Would really like to keep that feature.
    And the main driving force in my switch is Ubuntu (officialy) dropping ppc support, not ideology.

  3. Stuart Ballard Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 am

    Fair enough. I’m considering dropping Ubuntu myself - I have all sorts of weird redraw and crashing issues across multiple apps, and the final straw for me was an upgrade stranding me in 800×600 (as opposed to my more usual 1600×1200) for an hour until I figured out with the help of a bunch of googling, reading log files and some creative thinking what I could put into xorg.conf to fix it.

    But if/when I do I’ll definitely be going back to Debian. I liked things better when releases didn’t even matter because I could just run testing…

  4. Rawsock Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 8:33 am

    Must … resist … urge … to troll … awww fuckit ..

    UBUNTU SI BORKEN !

  5. jim Says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 4:29 am

    Why not use gNewSense?

  6. jim Says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 4:29 am

    Why not use gNewSense?