My Fedora Linux installation does not update itself automatically because of a bug that has been documented for at least five months. I could disable the yum-updatesd script and hack a cron script to manually do a yum update daily. But I am a little sour. The distribution maintainers have an apparent lack of interest in fixing the update mechanism at the heart of Fedora. It does not help that yum is written in Python, a language that triggers my gag reflex.

I feel the pain that Eric Raymond, a high profile Linux developer, wrote about in his public trashing of Fedora. After 12 years as a faithful Red Hat/Fedora user I am seriously considering switching to the next version of Ubuntu which is due out on April 19th.

Also, R.I.P. John Backus and thanks for BNF