[Ambassadors] FYI "Fedora ranking pulled ahead of Ubuntu"

[Xavier Naldo]

Agreed +1 with everything you stated!

:)



2010/11/18 Gregory Fenton <fedora at fedoradvds.com>

> I personally do not consider it a poor cousin - if I were to keep the
> family analogy I would consider it a kindly rich uncle, but that is how it
> has been described in the past and mud sticks.
>
> I am fully aware of fedora's features, if I was not 100% happy with it I
> would not have considered becoming an ambassador.
>
> I would be happy if the 10:1 ratio were 1:10 or even 1:1, it would be a
> sign that our work as ambassadors is going in the right direction.
>
> I also consider that even one user that migrates from windows or any other
> distribution that stays with Fedora is a vindication of the hard work that
> the entire team behind Fedora puts in to make such a great product.
>
> 2010/11/18 Xavier Naldo <xm4nfedoralinux at gmail.com>
>
> I HIGHLY DISAGREE Greg.
>>
>> Fedora is NOT poor cousin to RedHat or Ubuntu...ITs a mighty Distro in its
>> own right and would not fall to any other!! It has been #2 in the rankings
>> of distrowatch for a very long time...that MEANS something is good with
>> Fedora that keeps it up there....hmmm...maybe if one can research the
>> FEATURES of it.
>>
>>
>> 2010/11/18 Gregory Fenton <fedora at fedoradvds.com>
>>
>> Lies
>>> Damn lies
>>> Statistics
>>>
>>> As somebody that ships both Fedora and ubuntu I know that (at least for
>>> me) ubuntu outstrips Fedora by a 10:1 or better ratio.
>>>
>>> Does that mean that ubuntu is ten times better than Fedora? No, purely
>>> that when Linux is mentioned generally either ubuntu or Red Hat is the
>>> topic.  Fedora is regarded as the "poor cousin" to these - rightly or
>>> wrongly.
>>>
>>> If more focus was paid on brand recognition I am sure that fedora could
>>> consistently outsell (outgiveaway?) ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> On 18 November 2010 09:09, Christoph Wickert <
>>> christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2010, 21:01 -0500 schrieb David Ramsey:
>>>> > "Fedora ranking pulled ahead of Ubuntu" -
>>>> >
>>>> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1416718
>>>> >
>>>> > referenced "Linux Distributions - Facts and Figures" -
>>>> >
>>>> > http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
>>>>
>>>> Only within the last month and this is because we had a release in this
>>>> timeframe, Ubuntu didn't. It's always like this when one of us releases
>>>> a new version.
>>>>
>>>> Regars,
>>>> Christoph
>>>>
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