fedora vs. Debian?

[Karen Lewellen]

Thanks for this and all of the posts on this topic.
I am indeed leaning toward debian, and hear good things of ubuntu.
However does it support hardware synthesizes?  I have no liking for nor 
desire to use a software one for my system.
Thanks,
Karen

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Jason White wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:52:43PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> In terms of support, flexibility, is there really a difference?
>> I understand both distributions are strong on their integrated packages. Both
>> support hardware speech, what I will be using.
>> But is there anything else about one package over the other that should be
>> considered when weighing them?
>
> The upgrade options are different. With Fedora, it used to be the case (and
> still is?) that the only officially supported upgrade path from one release to
> the next involves booting an installation CD and using the installer. The Yum
> package maanger can in principle upgrade a running system, but so far as I
> know this is not considered reliable for upgrades between Fedora releases.
>
> In Debian, you can upgrade without having to reboot at all, which means that
> you can use your speech or braille software during the upgrade without having
> to obtain an installation CD that supports accessibility.
>
> If you're considering Debian, Ubuntu would be worth examining as the Ubuntu
> developers have been very supportive of accessibility-related work, including
> the Gnome accessibility project, and not all of their changes have found their
> way back into Debian yet. (Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian).
>
>
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