Fedora vs Ubuntu vs anything - where next with Linux?

[Paul Hardwick]

David Thorne wrote:
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>>> So fedora on a desktop - defo yes, on a server, I use CentOS
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> I second this.  I have a combination of both Ubuntu and Fedora on my
> home PCs/laptops (As it happens my desktop is usually Ubuntu and my
> laptop usually Fedora due to the slightly lower memory requirements of
> Gnome on Fedora - 198 versus 256 on Fedora 9 Vs 8.04)
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> Fedora 10 is an amazing distro - Fedora have recently up'ed the ante
> with Ubuntu in superb style.  Linux Format gave Fedora 10 10/10 and
> Linux Magazine gave it a very favourable review too.
>
> There are a few niggles on Fedora that I don't like (Running full Sun
> Java isn't easy if you wish to use it as a default JVM for instance, and
> some of the Eclipse plugins I use don't like OpenJDK, GCJ or similar)
> and there is always the difficulties of being able to install a media
> player but not automagically having MP3 codecs, but on the whole This
> isn't too hard to over come with additional repositories as already
> mentioned.  Ubuntu makes it very easy to install proprietary drivers
> (Indeed the article at
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3796126/The-Secret-Lives-of-Ubuntu-and-Debian-Users.htm
> seems to suggest that 86% use proprietary NVidia drivers.) It depends on
> what your opinion is on proprietary software on Linux.  Both Red Hat
> (Inc.Fedora) and Debian do their best to stick to FOSS standards in
> their default install - indeed on Fedora 9, even if you have installed
> mplayer - if you try to watch a WMA video it will take you to a page
> where you can pay for drivers to view it.  I haven't tried to watch a
> WMA in Fedora 10 yet - I try to avoid the WMA standard where ever possible!
>
> Fedora on a desktop is now a superb choice.  Can I suggest though if you
> aren't sure, run a virtual machine (VirtualBox has both open and closed
> source versions, although the most open are probably KVM/Xen with QEMU
> or similar) of Fedora on your Ubuntu box and try it "exclusivly" (IE
> open the VM and run that) for a few days and see if everything works to
> your liking.
>
> I am tempted to ditch my Intrepid install for a Fedora 10 and just run
> Ubuntu in VMs from now on, but I won't stop using either distro.  They
> both do what I need them too although they can take some fiddling to get
> there for certain aspects.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
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I run both Fedora 10 and Ubuntu Intrepid on 2 machines each. I get 
frustrated that the update with Fedora seems to break with unresolvable 
dependencies frequently with no obvious way of working around it and I 
end up leaving that distro for some time. On the other hand Ubuntu keeps 
updating and breaking my Atheros 5007 driver - but work arounds have 
been posted.

Paul H