Fedora Coverstory in Linux Format

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:46:34 -0700
Guy Fraser <guy at incentre.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:17 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> > > I don't understand all the rave over Ubuntu, especially when it comes to
> > > the less knowledgable user.  I couldn't be happier with the ease of
> > > working with Fedora, in spite of it's "bleeding-edgeness".
> > 
> > I think part of this comes from what Ubuntu is prepared to install by default. 
> > Despite its "free OSS" claims it installs by default packages such as 
> > wireless fireware, NTFS support, flash drivers that have dubious licensing. 
> > With Fedora you don't get this by default, but have to get from repos like 
> > livna. Personally, I respect fedora for what it does, but I suspect this is 
> > part of the difference.
> > 
> > Chris
> That would be my take as well. The last time I tried Ubuntu it seemed
> OK, but was obviously different, and not all in a good way. Being based
> outside the US jurisdiction allows Ubuntu to incorporate some features
> that are not available in FC by default, but some of the other odd parts
> more than offset that perceived advantage in my view.

One other things I've noted: When I'm stumped on some issue and start
doing web searches, I almost always find my answer in a forum article
google turns up, and the two most frequent forums for finding my answers
seem to be Ubuntu and Gentoo (of course I don't see many articles swooning
over Gentoo, so this may not be a relevant factor :-).