ESR ditches Red Hat/Fedora for Ubuntu

[stampeder]

Eric S. Raymond, Open Source author and erstwhile code writer, on his sudden switch of Linux flavours:

Goodbye, Fedora

* From: esr thyrsus com (Eric S. Raymond)
* To: fedora-devel-list redhat com
* Cc: lwn lwn net, editors newsforge com, sjvn vna1 com, editors linuxtoday com
* Subject: Goodbye, Fedora
* Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:03:50 -0500 (EST)

After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my
limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me
into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which
an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my system
unusable.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg01006.html

Nobody from Red Hat, including Alan Cox, asked him to stay either...

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9821/1090/