fedora LTS , why not?

[Adel ESSAFI]

2009/3/20 Armin <amoradi at fedoraproject.org>

> On Saturday 21 March 2009 11:09:06 Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> > 2009/3/21 Adel ESSAFI <adel.safi at imag.fr>
> >
> > > 2009/3/21 Sharpe, Sam J
> > > <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com<sam.sharpe%2Blists.redhat at gmail.com>
> <sam.sharpe%2Blists.redhat at gmail.com<sam.sharpe%252Blists.redhat at gmail.com>
> >
> > >
> > >> 2009/3/21 Adel ESSAFI <adelessafi at gmail.com>:
> > >> > I see that many of you point me to centOs. The idea is interresting.
> > >> > However, why centOs is not as known as ubuntu. The main advantage in
> > >>
> > >> ubunti
> > >>
> > >> > (in my point of view) is LTS and codecs!  Why centOS is not a
> > >> > commercial success?
> > >>
> > >> CentOS is a success. I've been looking for a new job recently and lots
> > >> of medium-sized businesses are using CentOS. In my limited experience
> > >> I have only found one company asking for Ubuntu experience. Ubuntu's
> > >> codec support is also no different to Fedora - it's not in the main
> > >> repositories, you have to enable universe, just like you have to
> > >> enable rpmfusion for Fedora.
> >
> > I agree. But, things looks easier in ubuntu! The coded is loaded
> > automatically (afte a confirmation from the user). Why such features are
> > not avalaible in Fedora!
>
> That is mostly an illusion created somewhat by the ubuntu user community.
>  You
> said things "look" easier.  Like what?  Could you give a good example?  **


For this example: I mean that some ubuntu multimedia software ask you
installing codecs when needed!! And they install the appropriate one. This
unfortunatly does not exist in Fedora


Regards





> The
> codecs are installed the same way and used the same way in both ubuntu and
> CentOS/Fedora.
>
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >> However, CentOS isn't used as much in large organisations - they tend
> > >> (as my current employer does) to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, because
> > >> it is certified by lots of application and hardware vendors and can be
> > >> purchased with support contracts which they have the money to buy.
> > >>
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