Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Robin Laing]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 15/05/07, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Having just seen Ubuntu for the first time, I can see the differences.
>>
>> Ubuntu is geared more towards the general public where Fedora is
>> directed more toward corporate users.  I say this as Fedora, from what I
>> have seen follows a more secure installation and higher concern for
>> possible IP/copyright infringement.  This causes it's own sets of
>> problems though.
> 
> I don't think that corporate users could stand the instability of
> Fedora. Corporate needs rock-solid software. RHEL, maybe, but not
> Fedora.
> 

In our experience, Fedora is rock-solid, at least in comparison to 
Windows.  My work machine runs until there is a new kernel upgrade. 
Most of the Fedora machines run BOINC (We are R&D) in the background as 
well as our Fedora Cluster.

Some people have just installed Ubuntu onto their work machines.

>> An example is where I work, for multimedia work, Ubuntu is a better
>> choice.  We needed a machine to run videos and other multimedia files
>> that won't run on Windows machines.  We now have a Ubuntu machine just
>> for this purpose.
>>
>> For secure work, Fedora looks better.  The best example of this is the
>> dreaded SELinux.  In Fedora, this is default but Ubuntu it is an add-on.
>>
>> In regards to updates, I was watching Synaptic (sp?) update the Ubuntu
>> machine and to be honest, I didn't see any difference between kyum and
>> it on the front end.
>>
>> There may be problems with yum and rpm but I have not found that to be
>> in my case.  I have found yum to be quite handy and my only issues come
>> more from the different repositories than yum or rpm.
>>
>> So, for now, I will stick with Fedora due to the security issues.  If
>> Ubuntu decides to follow suite, then I will look at it again.  That is
>> as long as I can find secondary repositories that will meet my
>> multimedia requirements.
> 
> You'll ifnd that enabling non-free software is a lot easier in Ubuntu
> than in Fedora. Not that it's difficult in Fedora, but in Ubuntu, one
> can click on an MP3, then click Yes Yes Yes until it plays.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 

It didn't work that well on the machine I witnessed being setup but it 
was no worse than Fedora.  As long as you can find a decent HowTo on 
setting up Multimedia, then life is great.

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