Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

[Roger]

Hi Nikolaus

I'm thinking that you could make yourself a list of what apps you would
like to have and another of what apps you really need to do your thing
for both and compare. I have not found the problem you mention, of apps
for one that are not on another.

I was a Fedora user since Red Hat 6.5 and about 18 months ago switched
to Ubuntu 10 which does everything I need, then came Fedora 14 so I
loaded it onto another hard drive and am quite chuffed because I have
the best of both worlds.
For me there is almost nothing to pick between them, I enjoy the
differences particularly with trying to set up multi install in Drupal
and SELinux on Fedora 14
Be warned, in Fedora you will get many, many SELinux reports until you
teach it what is acceptable to you and what is not.
That for me was a nuisance.

I have never bothered with Ubuntu one, in my reckoning that technology
is still new enough to be avoided unless one knows what one is doing and
has strong reasons for using it, I don't.

Roger





> 
> 
> 
> 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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