On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:06:55PM -0800, Usman A. Abbasi wrote:
> Assalam o Aliakum,
>
> I am new on this group, so my brief into: I final year of BS Software
> Engineering from University of Karachi.
>
> Now my question: Currently I am using Fedora Core 6, I am interested to
> know that what is the diffrence between fedora and ubuntu, kbuntu and etc.
> Which one is more stable, powerfull, and user firendly. Which OS is
> recommended for development purpose and for home use?
>
> Please let me know your openions, thanks in advance.
>
>
> Usman Ahmed Abbasi
You're using an older version of Fedora. As one who uses Fedora more
than Ubuntu, I'll give my view, and then the Ubuntu folks can answer.
In many ways, they are alike. They both tend to focus on Gnome, they
both give you a great deal (I would say too much) extra software.
Ubuntu's stated purpose is to replace Windows--that is, their number one
bug is that Windows is more popular. As such, they strive to make it as
userfriendly as possible, and you will often, but not always, find that
things work with less effort on Ubuntu. They make it quite easy to get
support for non-free (as in free speech type free) software.
Fedora, regardless of the latest official line, is more or less a
testing ground for RedHat. They will put in a great deal of bleeding
edge software--the key word here is bleeding. :) What I mean is that
they often put in new things, and might not test them as thoroughly as
they would be tested in say, Ubuntu. For example, they added
pulse-audio and it broke sound for many people. Ubuntu is now slowly
introducing pulse-audio in it's Hardy Heron alpha release, and it seems
to work without user intervention (judging from some brief playing
around with it.)
Ubuntu uses the apt system for package management. You'll find it
faster than yum. Both of them will break with missing dependencies from
time to time. To the end user, in many ways, it's simply a matter of
getting used to the syntax of one or the other--the basic concept (to
the end user) isn't that different.
Ubuntu uses sudo for everything--they discourage even giving root a
password. Fedora make sudo a bit more difficult to use for the non-root
user since even with sudo , commands in /usr/sbin or /sbin aren't in the
user's $PATH. Therefore, with Fedora, if using sudo, you'd have to
type, for example, /sbin/ifconfig.
As someone who prefers BSD and the far more minimalist ArchLinux, both
distros strike me as having too much installed as default as well as too
much reliance on GUI tools--but this is just my taste. I use Fedora
because my job mostly consists of work on RedHat and CentOS servers. I
think this is one reason that many sysadmin types wind up using Fedora,
because it's what they use at work, so using it at home makes you more
comfortable with it, and better able to act reflexively if there are
problems.
One thing that is just my impression--the Fedora forums seem to have a
more mature, less of a "fan-boy" type attitude than Ubuntu. I suspect
the paragraph I wrote above is part of this, many Fedora people are
people who've been using Linux for years and started with RedHat, back
when most people considered RedHat to be synonymous to Linux.
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