How Fedora chose me
Suvayu Ali
fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 14:42:17 UTC 2009
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:25 AM, davide wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wanted to remind of some counter examples,
>> * Xubuntu 9.04 @ work:
>> Firefox 3.0
>> Thunderbird 2.0
>> Pidgin 2.5.5 (supports only IMs)
>> Emacs 22.2
>> * Fedora 11 @ home:
>> Firefox 3.5.3
>> Thunderbird 3.0b3
>> Pidgin 2.6.2 (with audio/video support)
>> Emacs 23.1
>>
>> I find it very inconvenient to use the latest version of most apps on
>> Ubuntu. You either have to use some buggy package from universe or use a PPA
>> package.
>>
>> PS: A (not-so-expert) friend recently switched to F11 just to use the latest
>> pidgin :-p
>
>
> I'm not here to bash Fedora. I like it.
> But I would add that Ubuntu ships Firefox 3.5 too, named Shiretoko to
> avoid conflicts and I-dont-know-whatelse.
> I would remind also that Fedora was released two months after the
> ubuntu stable release.
>
I have used shiretoko, but it has minor issues. For example I can't use
the mplayer plugin with it, various websites refuse to recognize it as
firefox. All minor, but issues nonetheless.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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