Fedora vs. Ubuntu
Scott
geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Mon Sep 25 12:12:59 UTC 2006
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> not sure if this was mentioned already but, at the risk of sounding
> overly shallow and capitalistic, you might consider which linux distro
> is going to have more value on your resume.
>
> if there's a single distro that *clearly* has advantages for what you
> want to do immediately, by all means, choose that one. but, *** all
> things being equal *** and if comes down to a coin flip, you might
> want to go with the distro for which there are more posted jobs.
>
> just my $0.02.
>
> rday
>
That's another reason why I don't limit myself to one Operating System.
The more I know, the better it looks on a resume.
In the case of Linux, the distros I come across most often on servers
are all RedHat variations (RH 9, RHEL, Fedora Core, CentOS..). Second
to that would Debian, with SUSE following closely afterward.
Ubuntu of course is based on Debian. After getting comfortable with
Ubuntu, I gave Debian a try. I've used it on and off over the past 18
months. And since I've been using Linux for years and learned and used
Ubuntu beforehand, Debian was a no-brainier. The difference between the
two comes down to "hand holding". Ubuntu has more of if (*if* you need
it, that is) and some nicer GUI-based ways to update software.
In fact the nice GUI-based updating is reminiscent of distros like
Fedora Core. :-)
I'm currently contemplating checking out CentOS. And because I have
waaaay too much free time, I might try Gentoo as well.
You can never learn (or use) too many Operating Systems. ;-)
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Scott
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