Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

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2011/4/17 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org>

> Hello,
>
> I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly
> unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart
> is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in
> Launchpad. Therefore I want to switch distributions, and I have already
> narrowed it down to either Debian unstable or Fedora (but a release, not
> rawhide).
>
> Unfortunately I have a hard time deciding between the two, because I am
> very much biased by the fact that I have already used Debian in the past
> and a lot of experience with it. So I invariably come up with random
> nice Debian features which then turn out not to exist in Fedora. But on
> the other hand, all the nice Fedora features that Debian can't offer are
> unknown to me.
>
> Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to
> hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I
> went with Debian.
>
>
> Just to be clear: I am *not* interested in starting a Debian vs Fedora
> thread here. So am only asking for your pro-fedora points, so there
> shouldn't even be the possibility of a flamewar :-).
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>   -Nikolaus


Debian is very stable and apt-get is very easy. Fedora is unstable but it
has more new software and new features. It is no a easy choice.
So I agree Chris Smart's opinion, you had better try Fedora and Debian by
yourself.
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