Fedora vs Ubuntu vs anything - where next with Linux?

[Thierry Sayegh De Bellis]

Alastair Stevens a écrit :
> Hi All - I'm looking for feedback on the latest versions of Fedora
> Linux, from people who use it every day and who are keen on systems
> that "Just Work". This isn't a game any more; although I've been using
> Linux full-time for 7 years (and part-time for over 10 years), I'm
> beginning to lose my rag and starting to lust after the Windows 7 beta....
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***disclaimer: been working in red hat shops for too many years to count
and hold a current rhce so it is my comfort zone***

Been using red hat in one form or another since rh 5.x back in the days
were they did not have this whole enterprise model thing. I moved to
Fedora when it was beta and been using it ever since without massive
glitches, when I had an issue it has always been hardware related.
I do not tend to buy the latest and greatest hence driver issues
sometimes, maybe 3 times over the last 7 years.

my desktop is Fedora but if it's server related I'd use rhel or centos
as the release cycles are too fast for production servers IMHO.

you'll find yourself wanting to enable extra 3rd party repositories if
you want the fullness of multimedia but it's easy enough. Personally i
do not use the fancy desktop effects i just want an efficient, no eye
candy desktop so never looked at these stuff.

The one thing I avoid like the plague in Fedora is NetworkManager but
your experience may vary, a simple look on the mailing list shows wildly
disparate experiences with this piece of software.

Am not a point and click person so will be in a Terminal most of the
time so no graphical client for ftp et al. A server for me comes with no
GUI. Probably worth mentioning.

So fedora on a desktop - defo yes, on a server, I use CentOS

happy to discuss further if you have any questions

hth

Thierry