> Dear Fedora User Community, > > I have used various flavors of Linux in the past... starting with Corel > Linux, SUSE, and then onto Red Hat. The last one I used before Fedora Core > 6 > was Red Hat 9~ so I had been out of the loop for quite sometime.. (was too > busy with Mac OS X) > > I don't know much about Ubuntu but have heard that the new Ubuntu Feisty > Fawn is coming out a little before Fedora 7 comes out and that it's > supposed > to be much better (just from word of mouth). I was hoping that the Fedora > User Community could tell me 'and other users out there' why we should > stick > with Fedora. > > I'm new to Fedora and like what I've seen so far. I'm hoping that Fedora > will be the #1 choice for everyone in the future. Is there a big > difference > between Ubuntu and Fedora? Please don't feel offended by this. I'm just > curious as to why not everyone has already switched to Fedora.. > > Sincerely, > Ryan > I am with the crowd that says its really a matter of preference. I have used both distros, and I personally prefer Fedora. If I really had to choose overall, I lean towards Gentoo, but that is a distro that requires more effort to administer than I usually have time for. In my experience Fedora seems to work better for in workstation or server environment, whereas Ubuntu is more for a Desktop type environment. Fedora doesn't come with some of the copyright grey area software, and I believe Ubuntu does, which is mostly audio/video related stuff like mp3 support and DVD stuff. This is all readily available for Fedora, and installs in a snap, it just doesn't come in the base package. I am unsure as to why Ubuntu can do it and Fedora chooses not to. This mailing list is another great feature, help for RedHat/Fedora installations is always easy to find. Ubuntu isnt too bad either in that area, however. Some of the more advanced things I have tinkered with on my Linux machine, it was always easier to find info for RedHat/Fedora, from setting up mail servers, to clustering, to high availability web servers, etc. I have never attempted those on Ubuntu, so maybe that info is out there somewhere also. It just seems to me that since RedHat has been around for so long, the help you need is always out on Google somewhere. That hasnt always been the case for my Ubuntu issues =) Oh yea, I like yum! lol
