Posted by sYnOnYx
Going to check out fedora tonight, from what the linux head here at my school says its better than ubuntu. Going to school for IT right now , and apparently its widely used in the IT world. Anyone here on fedora ?
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Oh boy.
Let me tell you, since Fedora 9 came out, I have been using it up until two weeks ago. And I mean as my SOLE OS....
Previous, I was using Fedora 8 for over a year. Before that, Open Suse, and for a month before that, Xubuntu.
I "tried" Ubuntu before but it didn't fit me.
This all came after my XP was just getting slower and slower and had many problems, so I figured screw it, I'll try "linux".
Well, I'm sure you're wondering is Fedora 9 better than Ubuntu. All I can say is install it and use it for two months. You'll know by the end of the two months whether you want to keep it or not.
Here are some major points: things can be very easy in Fedora. Compiling, installing programs, updating, all this is great, easy. You have Network Manager, you can turn it off if you want, you have SE Linux, cutting edge programs, and a good support forum online.
Ubuntu: you have Ubuntu specific names for pacakges sometimes that go beyond OS specific. I mean, like, if all other Linux use soxwhatever.so, it might use some completely different thing, and if you go to compile SOURCE code, it could complain. Big time. So you have to use symlinks, tricks, etc. to compile some things. If you let Ubuntu people you have a problem compiling something in a forum, their answer is usually "WHY would you COMPILE" instead of trying to help. To them, Linux...Ubuntu...is about just clicking and installing, not about compiling anything.
You get that with Fedora people too, but not as much. At least you can compile away without issues on Fedora.
Fedora's whole admin is just like many other OS's. You can control your internet from the command line easily for example "ifup eth0" "ifdown" etc. Ubuntu, is all controlled differently.
Fedora is better for laptops and wireless, Ubuntu is good. Ubuntu is nicer when it comes to screwing up your xorg.conf file, it will tell you you screwed it and make you fix it - at least when I've messed it up.
Fedora is more "technical" let's say.
But Fedora to me, in the end, was not the best for me because I wanted some programs that were being developed, sadly, only for Ubuntu (since it's the most popular Linux currently by some polls). That means some things I couldn't even get for Fedora, I can get in Linux. For that reason alone, two weeks ago I changed from Fedora to Ubuntu. It's fine so far, but I haven't tried to get compiz to work with it - which was very fast and flawless on Fedora 9.
Another issue is flickering of the screen when using VMWare Workstation. This is really annoying and it didn't happen with Fedora. I'll have to troubleshoot that one.
Anyway - I say go for it - Fedora 9 is pretty awesome stuff. I just wanted to test some new code that was only developed for Ubuntu currently, so I had to switch.
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