On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 18:07 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: > confused between: fedora, openSUSE and ubuntu LTS It's always going to be hard to answer "which is best" queries. As there's numerous criteria, and conflicting answers. If you want free support from other users, I would say Fedora and Ubuntu. I haven't seen openSuse to comment on it. I've noticed more knowledgeable answers on the Fedora list than the Ubuntu list, which seems to have more dumb suggestions, last time I looked. By that I mean silly suggestions from people clearly don't know what they're talking about, and no corrections to such advice. That may have changed, with time. But bearing in mind that Ubuntu tends to be the first port of call to Windows users, it seems to drag in more of the crazy Windows mentalities (e.g. reinstall, reboot, and fiddle with unrelated things to your problem). With Fedora, you get an unencumbered OS. You shouldn't fall afoul of any royalties, patents, etc. But you lose some functionality, such as mp3 playback, unless you go to a third party and take a legal risk. Or, the stability risks from things like closed source video card drivers from certain vendors, rather than using the more basic open source drivers. Ubuntu doesn't care, and provides you with some things of dubious legality (depending on where you are), so more things "just work." To a more pure blooded *ix users, Ubuntu gets looked upon as the weenie version of Debian. So, if your goal is a bit higher, you might want to look further than just Ubuntu. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
