On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 22:48:48 +0530, "Rameshwar Kr. Sharma" <mathsrealworld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Now since my mind has become a little negative for Ubuntu, I just > wanted to know the truth (remaining) between opensuse and Fedora, and > for rest of the distributions more -- I would really not look for I > would be confused more. To help us make recommendations, it would be helpful to know how you are planning to use the system. Notably Fedora has some features that may make it not suitable for everyone. Fedora versions are only supported for 13 months, so you will be looking at doing upgrades once (or twice if you don't want to skip releases) a year. Fedora cannot include software covered by patents and hence doesn't come with support for some commonly used codecs. Fedora also doesn't include proprietary drivers. While the open source drivers have gotten better and will be reaching a few important milestones around F17, if you want to get the most out of your video card you are going to want to use proprietary drivers. rpmfusion provides support for many codecs and for proprietary drivers. Using the codecs may or may not be strictly legal in your juristriction. I wouldn't write off using Ubuntu for some use cases. They provide long term support for some of their releases. You could also use their upstream distro, Debian. If you want a Red Hat derived distro without buying support, you can look at CentOS or Scientific Linux. Those have long life cycles that avoid having to do yearly release changes. Also note that using poor security practices under Linux can get your system owned, just like under Windows. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
