[ Ubuntu-BD ] Fedora-bangladesh-list

[Tarin Mahmood]

I guess Omi bhai was putting an end to the Fedora Vs. Ubuntu debate, but
I'll add something that I think everyone missing.

I'll clear my position here first, I love Linux, I love the freedom in it.
Currently I use Ubuntu cause I've became used to it. I've also used Redhat ,
Fedora 1-8 and I know my ins and out of both of the distros.

Now I should point out some information
Canonical (Ubuntu's Sponsor) also provides paid
supports<http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid>and if you don't want to
pay you go to the community, Its all the same with
Redhat, if you want dedicated support you go for paid service if not then go
to the Community. Yes Fedora also have a good community.
But at the end the paid service is mostly useful for Large corporations and
companies.
Don't forget, every corporation is in it for money.

I am not stereotyping Fedora, but seriously I dont see there is any
necessity of this distro anymore :)

Debian and Mandriva (former mandrake) are much more matured than this one,
even you can conside Suse too -

 I had to point out this comment, cause I think I have to.
You are getting it all wrong. Linux is all about community and working
together. Red-hat implements something Ubuntu adopts it and Vise versa.
Without this community work Linux wouldn't have came this far. So every one
is important. So for the sake of Linux, Fedora should exists, so should
Ubuntu and other thousands of distros, cause anyone contribute anything in
the end it that helps each and every one of us.

because it didn't worked for you, doesn't meant it will not work for others,
it works. Thousands of servers runs on Fedora/Redhat. Fedora have a big user
base. Where I work, the server is a Fedora 8 server and it works, its damn
solid.

Fedora is more matured then most of the distros you mentioned except Debian.

I like redhat because, Red hat have been giving us their OS for free for a
Long long time and mind it their contribution to Linux is undeniable and
huge. And They still have a big part in Linux's development and they will
have for a long time to come.
Mandriva and Suse are corporate maggots from whome I think I would stay
away, I don't remember Mandriva ever contribute something mentionable to the
OSS and while Suse contribution is awesome (Compiz, silverlight etc.) they
are sold to MS.

I agree yum sucks, but its a new system (w/r to apt) so it needs time. As
far I remember their developers are working for an unified repository, once
its completed, most of the dependency problems will be solved. I've used
Fedora 8 and I have to say it was solid. Only problem was the package
manager. but the improvement between Yum(f7) and yum(f8) was very
impressive. and in fedora 9 they are reworking the GUI too which looks nicer
then the 7/8 's package manager.

Its not very reasonable to say one distro sucks or another distro is boss.
cause in the core all are the same, They are all built a top of Linux
kernel, they are all the same to me

Bye
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