[LUAU] Linspire damage control (on the subject of ESR 'leaving' Fedora)

[Jim Thompson]

On Mar 4, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:

> Jim Thompson wrote:
>> http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html? 
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>> Eric Raymond's boot to Red Hat's head
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> ESR obviously has no idea of what he is talking about. There is  
> only one true Linux distribution, and that's Debian (translation: I  
> can usually get it installed and keep it maintained).

hey man, I run debian too, but I don't make claims that its the "one  
true" distro.   Its right for me, and yes, I agree that its easy to  
install and maintain, but I've also had apt fsck my system to the  
point of not booting while upgrading 'testing'.

I was able to repair same though.

> Fedora is hardly my favorite distro, but Eric really ought to  
> practice some discretion, like Linus when talking to the Gnome guys.

Well, thats the difference.

Linus said, "gnome sucks rocks, here's a patch".

ESR said, "fedora sucks, I quit".


ESR claims to be "one of the senior technical cadre that makes the  
Internet work , and a core Linux and open-source developer."
Yet ESR has no code in the linux kernel.  (None!)

Linus doesn't make any grandiose claims (other than things like,  
"thats stupid", and he once said "I am your God", but we all think he  
was kidding.)
Linus, point of fact, does have (quite a bit of) code in the kernel.