Need advice

[Bill Oliver]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote:

> 
> Would you recommend using something like Ubuntu instead of Fedora for work related system?
> 
> I moved from Ubuntu to Arch to Fedora. Fedora provides both latest innovations in Linux world and ease of use over something like Arch Linux.
> 
> I have recently started learning Java/Android. That means I need to focus more on learning Android and least on how to get something working on Fedora or
> fixing breakage that comes from flux of upgrades (Example -A bug that left Gnome users locked out and Bumblebee, VirtualBox may require special assistance at
> the time of kernel upgrade). Not to mention Google recommends Ubuntu for Android  development.
> 
> Wondering what other folks have experienced.
>

No, I'd recommend CentOS or RHEL for a stable server.  I don't have much against Ubuntu, but I like the "look and feel" of the Red Hat-related families.  Since you migrated, you know that these different distros often put little things in different places, and from an admin perspective I don't like to have to keep asking myself stuff like "Should I write this script to grep through /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog for this distro?"  I do a lot of scripting, and moving from yum to apt-get, etc. is not work the effort of modifying my scripts and such -- unless I have a good reason to...

billo