[TriLUG] Ubuntu vs Fedora, was Re: Linux Distribution for server Opinions

[Roy Vestal]

+1. However, I do not like GNOME personally, so I have tried out the  
Fedora/CentOS KDE LiveCD's and the Kubuntu and other Knoppix clones.  
Other than eyecandy, it's very much the same.

One thing I do not like about Ubuntu that I like about CentOS and  
Fedora, I can download rpms from other RHEL compatible linux clones  
and use yum and EPEL and RPMForge addon repositories to install and  
resolve the dependencies of these rpms.

When trying to download deb packages and add them to Ubuntu, I've had  
issues getting dependency resolution. However the same package to a  
true Debian install (playing with Etch atm) these get resolved by apt.

<shrugs> Could be the package or the user. Probably the latter. :P


On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Maxwell Spangler wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:29 -0500, Paul McLanahan wrote:
>
>> I will say that I believe Ubuntu is easier to learn how to use for
>> someone new to Linux. I think it does a nice job of easing you into
>> the whole idea of Linux, and then also getting out of your way when
>> you want to start poking around under the hood, compiling kernels,  
>> and
>> using a different window manager.
>
> Yes, this is what I hear over and over again.  That Ubuntu is so
> amazingly easy to use, and yet when I go looking for measurable
> differences I find very little.  I don't find lack of quality, just a
> lack of superiority to match the enthusiasm its users express.
>
> For example, when I log into Ubuntu I get the same menu system as
> Fedora: GNOME -- something that neither Ubuntu or Fedora can really
> claim as their own innovation to be different.  I see the placement of
> things differently: something might be under Accessories instead of
> Sound/Video, but that's not significant.
>
> But I have yet to really try it, so I am open minded to what I might  
> be
> missing!
>
> -- 
> Maxwell Spangler
> Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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