ESR
If your any kind of geek you already know who ESR, RMS and Linus
are. You might have noticed that
ESR has quite
publicly
stated he will no longer run Red Hat and will favour of Ubuntu
instead. ESR's reasoning as best as I can tell, is that Red Hat
should in fact first try to obtain a wider user base and then, with
a market share that actually has some clout, lobby for Free
Software and open formats and all that good stuff.
I am not sure this is the best approach. I do feel like ESR wants
Red Hat Linux to become a big player in the desktop market, and I
am quite certain Ubuntu has the same goal so I expect ESR will
quite enjoy his new OS. However it seems silly to me to sacrifice
some freedoms to get to the top and then try to get those freedoms
back.
Another thing that struck me was that he had a problem upgrading a
specific package and then hand removed some files and then was
unable to reinstall said package, he then decided against booting
into rescue mode and fiddled some more, finally resulting in an
unbootable machine. All this without backing up any data beforehand
and using a community driven `testbed' OS and not a stable
release.
I have a great respect for someone that wrote fetchmail and the
bulk of the code for both Emacs modes for VC and GDB but still, I
don't think this was Fedora's fault.
In other news, my niece set a new record (36 times in one day) for
text messaging me while I was at work :-) She is in fact quite
remarkable at texting, she knows how many times to press each
number to get the desired letter without even looking at the phone.
Luckily for me and her mom, I let her use a cellphone from work
which she can use with no charge just to message me.