fedora LTS , why not?

[Adel ESSAFI]

2009/3/21 Sharpe, Sam J
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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
> 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!


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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