[Ambassadors] Help me: Fedora vs. Ubuntu

[Juan M. Rodriguez]

Hi there,

I always sway people with this phrase: "Want to see tomorrow's Ubuntu? Try
Fedora today!" then proceed to explain how features are more important, and
the Fedora Philosofy:

Freedom, Friends, Features, First

It's worked out for me so far.

-Nushio

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Christos Bacharakis <cmpahar at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Truong Anh. Tuan <tuanta at iwayvietnam.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Most of People in our community are crazy with Ubuntu.
>> I know Fedora is much better and I am thinking about a campaign to change
>> their mind.
>>
>> First of all, I would like to write a full list of advantages in Fedora
>> against Ubuntu (in our language, Vietnamese, of course).
>> Could you please help me some good sources and ideas (both for the
>> advantage list and the full process to change their mind).
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Tuan
>>
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>
> The first argument that I come up with is that many Ubuntu sub-projects are
> not upstream. For example if an Ubuntu translator, translate a gnome string,
> Launchpad will not upstream the string to Gnome translations so the other
> distributions won't have that string translated.
> An another thing is that Ubuntu uses many tools like Launchpad which are
> closed source. Hey, we are a FOSS community over here.
>
> A personal argument is that Ubuntu is trying to be more like Windows and
> less than a typical Linux distribution. Evolution is good, but don't try to
> be more like your enemy for wining more fans. It's not right!
>
> I am a little bit tired so I can't think anything else right now. Hope to
> helped you. Good luck.
>
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> Christos Bacharakis
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-- 
Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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