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On 14/01/13 13:07, Chris Ernst wrote:
On
01/13/2013 03:44 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
I would tend use Fedora for development,
but would consider CentOS (or
RHEL, if we had the budget) for production - I avoid Ubuntu like
the plague.
I happen to be doing my own research on this matter. I tend to
lean more toward RHEL or CentOS for production servers just
because there seem to be more people using it in that capacity and
it seem to be easier to get solid support or advice for those.
But I prefer Ubuntu for my laptop mainly because of the size of
the community, available PPAs, ease of administration, etc...
Ultimately, it seem to come down to what you are most
familiar/comfortable managing. I don't see much practical
difference between the distributions other than the versions of
various software that they ship with by default. But that is
usually rather easy to change according to your needs anyway.
I've seen the opinion of "avoid Ubuntu like the plague" expressed
many times, but it is never followed up with any solid reasoning.
Can you (or anyone else) give specific details on exactly why you
believe Ubuntu should be avoided?
- Chris
4 reasons:
- One place
where I worked Ubuntu was standard, I tried it and found that it lacked at least a couple of desktop features in GNOME 2
that I found very useful in to Fedora.
Fortunately, I was allowed to revert
back to Fedora. Prior to that,
I was using Fedora mainly by default.
- Twice I came across features that I
liked and Ubuntu seemed to imply they had done them, later I
found the projects been initiated
and sponsored largely by Red Hat.
Especially as Red Hat is in the top ten contributors to the
kernel, and the contribution of Ubuntu is
not significant.
- Ubuntu distributions are now
starting to be filled with crapware and
ant-privacy features features.
- Ubuntu seems very
good at collecting fanbois.
If I were to change from Fedora,
I would probably go back to Debian.
Cheers,
Gavin
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