I second your comment. If you want to compare LINUX do it with other OS. Not within distros.
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Tarin Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess Omi bhai was putting an end to the Fedora Vs. Ubuntu debate, but > I'll add something that I think everyone missing. > > I'll clear my position here first, I love Linux, I love the freedom in it. > Currently I use Ubuntu cause I've became used to it. I've also used Redhat , > Fedora 1-8 and I know my ins and out of both of the distros. > > Now I should point out some information > Canonical (Ubuntu's Sponsor) also provides paid > supports<http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid>and if you don't want to pay you > go to the community, Its all the same with > Redhat, if you want dedicated support you go for paid service if not then go > to the Community. Yes Fedora also have a good community. > But at the end the paid service is mostly useful for Large corporations and > companies. > Don't forget, every corporation is in it for money. > > I am not stereotyping Fedora, but seriously I dont see there is any > necessity of this distro anymore :) > > Debian and Mandriva (former mandrake) are much more matured than this one, > even you can conside Suse too - > > I had to point out this comment, cause I think I have to. > You are getting it all wrong. Linux is all about community and working > together. Red-hat implements something Ubuntu adopts it and Vise versa. > Without this community work Linux wouldn't have came this far. So every one > is important. So for the sake of Linux, Fedora should exists, so should > Ubuntu and other thousands of distros, cause anyone contribute anything in > the end it that helps each and every one of us. > > because it didn't worked for you, doesn't meant it will not work for > others, it works. Thousands of servers runs on Fedora/Redhat. Fedora have a > big user base. Where I work, the server is a Fedora 8 server and it works, > its damn solid. > > Fedora is more matured then most of the distros you mentioned except > Debian. > > I like redhat because, Red hat have been giving us their OS for free for a > Long long time and mind it their contribution to Linux is undeniable and > huge. And They still have a big part in Linux's development and they will > have for a long time to come. > Mandriva and Suse are corporate maggots from whome I think I would stay > away, I don't remember Mandriva ever contribute something mentionable to the > OSS and while Suse contribution is awesome (Compiz, silverlight etc.) they > are sold to MS. > > I agree yum sucks, but its a new system (w/r to apt) so it needs time. As > far I remember their developers are working for an unified repository, once > its completed, most of the dependency problems will be solved. I've used > Fedora 8 and I have to say it was solid. Only problem was the package > manager. but the improvement between Yum(f7) and yum(f8) was very > impressive. and in fedora 9 they are reworking the GUI too which looks nicer > then the 7/8 's package manager. > > Its not very reasonable to say one distro sucks or another distro is boss. > cause in the core all are the same, They are all built a top of Linux > kernel, they are all the same to me > > Bye > > -- > ubuntu-bd mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > >
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