On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Well said, but I just wanted to learn the Linux from the basics -> right from the first step. So if Fedora really gives all such issues, should I go to openSUSE? -- 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
