How Fedora chose me

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:25 AM, davide wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Wanted to remind of some counter examples,
>> * Xubuntu 9.04 @ work:
>>         Firefox 3.0
>>         Thunderbird 2.0
>>         Pidgin 2.5.5 (supports only IMs)
>>         Emacs 22.2
>> * Fedora 11 @ home:
>>         Firefox 3.5.3
>>         Thunderbird 3.0b3
>>         Pidgin 2.6.2 (with audio/video support)
>>         Emacs 23.1
>>
>> I find it very inconvenient to use the latest version of most apps on
>> Ubuntu. You either have to use some buggy package from universe or use a PPA
>> package.
>>
>> PS: A (not-so-expert) friend recently switched to F11 just to use the latest
>> pidgin :-p
>
>
> I'm not here to bash Fedora. I like it.
> But I would add that Ubuntu ships Firefox 3.5 too, named Shiretoko to
> avoid conflicts and I-dont-know-whatelse.
> I would remind also that Fedora was released two months after the
> ubuntu stable release.
>

I have used shiretoko, but it has minor issues. For example I can't use 
the mplayer plugin with it, various websites refuse to recognize it as 
firefox. All minor, but issues nonetheless.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.