Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Robin Laing]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html
> 
> What are your comments? I feel simillar.
> 

Having just seen Ubuntu for the first time, I can see the differences.

Ubuntu is geared more towards the general public where Fedora is 
directed more toward corporate users.  I say this as Fedora, from what I 
have seen follows a more secure installation and higher concern for 
possible IP/copyright infringement.  This causes it's own sets of 
problems though.

An example is where I work, for multimedia work, Ubuntu is a better 
choice.  We needed a machine to run videos and other multimedia files 
that won't run on Windows machines.  We now have a Ubuntu machine just 
for this purpose.

For secure work, Fedora looks better.  The best example of this is the 
dreaded SELinux.  In Fedora, this is default but Ubuntu it is an add-on.

In regards to updates, I was watching Synaptic (sp?) update the Ubuntu 
machine and to be honest, I didn't see any difference between kyum and 
it on the front end.

There may be problems with yum and rpm but I have not found that to be 
in my case.  I have found yum to be quite handy and my only issues come 
more from the different repositories than yum or rpm.

So, for now, I will stick with Fedora due to the security issues.  If 
Ubuntu decides to follow suite, then I will look at it again.  That is 
as long as I can find secondary repositories that will meet my 
multimedia requirements.

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