fedora LTS , why not?

[Adel ESSAFI]

2009/3/21 Adel ESSAFI <adel.safi at imag.fr>

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> 2009/3/20 Armin <amoradi at fedoraproject.org>
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>> On Saturday 21 March 2009 11:09:06 Adel ESSAFI wrote:
>> > 2009/3/21 Adel ESSAFI <adel.safi at imag.fr>
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>> > > 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>
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>> > >> 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
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>> > >> ubunti
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>> > >> > (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.
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>> > 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!
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>> 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?  **
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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




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>> The
>> codecs are installed the same way and used the same way in both ubuntu and
>> CentOS/Fedora.
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>> > > 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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