Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/04/2008 02:56 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
>   
>> because...
>> <snip>
>>     
>
> And:
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>   4.  The Ubuntu life cycle is much longer than Fedora, making it more
>       stable for production environments.
>   
I don't particularly buy that argument. If you are looking for stability 
in production environments, then you need to compare the Enterprise 
distributions, such as RHEL and CentOS. With Ubuntu you can chose LTS or 
Normal, and you can purchase a support contract. Fedora (and OpenSuSe 
for that matter) is not intended for a corporate production environment. 
It includes all the bells and whistles because the user community 
demands these where a corporate production desktop or server needs more 
stability. I currently run Ubuntu (8.10 Intrepid Ibex) on my personal 
laptop, Fedora 9 on my corporate HP Integrity (IA64) Workstation, and 
Fedora 9 on my x86_64 desktop at home. I happen to like the fact that 
Ubuntu has a decent LiveCD with an easy installer. Fedora and OpenSuSE 
are more traditional in that they provide more bits on the installation 
media. Aditionally, it is my perception that both Red Hat and Novel give 
more back to the OpenSource community. I know that Red Hat and SuSE both 
has a number of kernel developers on staff.

But, in the original question, which one is better, Fedora 9 or Ubuntu, 
I could not begin to answer that, and I use them both every day.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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