w[h]ich is better ubuntu or fedora.

[david]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:07 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On 4/20/05, James Wilkinson <ubuntu at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Until earlier this month, I was one of the regulars on the Fedora
> > mailing list. So I have a certain amount of experience to draw on...
> 
> I have run Red Hat and then Fedora 1, 2, 3.  I had a lot of experience
> with it, and really liked it.
> 
> But then I played with Ubuntu Warty and about two months ago, decided
> it was so much better than Fedora, I wiped out Fedora and replaced it
> with Ubuntu.
> 
> I still think Fedora is better for a server system.  I put Ubuntu on
> one of my servers, but I think I will switch back.  Ubuntu is really
> designed for a desktop system.
> 
> Part of the the difference is rpm/yum and deb/apt.  There are a lot
> more people using Fedora and a lot more repositories out there. 
> Unfortunately, there are a bunch of conflicting repositories out there
> for Fedora.  So you have to be more careful.
> 
> Ubuntu does not have that problem, but if you add Debian repositories,
> you might have to be a bit careful.
> 
> Also, synaptic is great.  There has been development on a GUI
> interface to Yum, but I haven't followed it that much.
> 
> I think overall I would be happier if Ubuntu were KDE based, but there
> is Kubuntu.  I like having the option of several desktop managers and
> I also see why Ubuntu went the way they have - it makes sense.
> 
> My two cents.
> 
> -- 
> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
> 

For me, the underlying philosophy is the decider.

With Fedora you get buggy code in the hope you'll sort it out / develop
some killer app that RedHat can put into RHEL and sell.

With Ubuntu you get more or less stable code, as a gift, in the hope
you'll use it and find it better than adequate, and maybe you'll tell
other people about it too.


nux