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Re: Ubuntu v. Fedora (overall)



Ubuntu for me, although I don't consider myself a diehard linux guy. I use it at work and home almost exclusively but I have
never compiled a kernel.

Just my 2c

-charlie

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Scott Duensing <scott@jaegertech.com> wrote:
Personally, I like Debian/Ubuntu.  Fedora tries to be too much like
Windows for my tastes.  Also, for some odd reason, RPM hates me.  :-)

Scott


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:45:33AM -0600, Nathan Nutter wrote:
>> However, just to be clear Red Hat and Fedora are way more different
>> than Ubuntu and Fedora are.
>
> Well, the GUI is more-or-less the same between Ubuntu and Fedora, but
> that's where the similarities end.  The low-level stuff (package
> management tools, installers, that sort of thing) is identical between
> RHEL/CentOS and Fedora.  There's no pain in transitioning between them
> IF you ignore the GUI bits.
>
> (Even some of the GUI bits are common though, actually.  We use
> virt-manager on both Fedora and CentOS.  The CentOS version is almost as
> current as the Fedora version.)
>
>> If you wanted to compare Red Hat and Fedora you could make an almost
>> equally compare Ubuntu and Debian stable.
>
> Almost.  The installers are completely different.  Other than that,
> ignoring the GUI bits, yeah, you're right.
>
> Steve
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