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[Masum Masum]

I second your comment. If you want to compare LINUX do it with other OS. Not
within distros.

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Tarin Mahmood <tmahmood at arenamobile.com>
wrote:

> 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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