Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

[Rares Aioanei]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:07:11 -0700
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I don't exactly knwo what Debian unstable offers these days, but here is
> my take on this.

Typing this from a Debian testing machine, my primary workstation.
> 
> 1. Python 3 - can be installed parallel to Python 2.6
also possible on Debian
>    + Support for Python specific commands within gdb
> 2. I have used Ubuntu for couple of years at the university, but I
>    prefer rpm/yum over dpkg/apt/aptitude
> 3. Newer kernels
>    + 2.6.38 for F15
2.6.38 for testing, 2.6.32 for squeeze(stable), possible to mix
repos (stable+testing+unstable, for example)
>    + 2.6.35 for F14
>    + 2.6.34 for F13
> 4. Compared to Ubuntu, I feel the quality control on packages are higher
>    in Fedora. I have very little experience with Debian, but from my few
>    months of trying it out, although better than Ubuntu I found it
>    lacking compared to Fedora.
I might of course be biased, but to me Debian's quality control 
is like no other.
> 5. Many others might debate this, but I feel more secure with SELinux
>    set to enforce. I feel Fedora integrates SELinux much better than any
>    other distro.
This is highly debatable, don't want to start a flamewar.
> 6. Again debatable, but I like LVMs. Not sure how good the support is in
>    Debian.
As good as in Anaconda.
> 7. Possibility to test bleeding edge technologies like the btrfs
>    filesystem
Idem.
> 8. Although the ppa system is nice, but I find the community
>    repositories available for Fedora have a higher packaging standard
>    and are in general more reliable.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
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> Suvayu
> 
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