Fedora lifetime and stability

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 03:58:39 UTC 2007


On Nov 11, 2007 9:40 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> >> Note: I don't see Fedora and Ubuntu competing for the same users, so
> >> there's not much "win" there, if I didn't run Fedora I'd probably go to
> >> CentOS for most things, certainly for servers.
> >
> > Well, they compete for me.
> > I used Kubuntu for a time, and it seemed to me
> > more or less identical to Fedora KDE.
> > I stuck to Fedora because I had it on other machines,
> > and saw no reason to change.
> >
> > What is the difference between Fedora and Ubuntu users, briefly?
> >
>
> Fedora users have spent a long time learning rpm, yum, chkconfig,
> service and system-config-something commands.  Ubuntu users do those
> things some other way.


That's really about all it is. I might additionally argue that a
greater percentage of Ubuntu users are jerks, but I have no evidence
to back that up.


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