[ale] ubuntu versus fedora

[Larry Johnson]

I've toyed with the idea of going with CentOS.  I worked with it when
I was running a Beowulf cluster (the head ran RHEL, the nodes CentOS)
but my actual hands on with CentOS was minimal (the nodes were
expendable generic servers).

ubuntu's update cycle has always seemed a bit scary to me.  I loaded
it because it seemed to support more hardware out of the box, and for
my desktop seemed to handle repartitioning more easily.

Larry

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM, wolf at wolfhalton.info
<wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote:
> This derails the comparison, but for servers, consider CentOS (redhat
> enterprise server without the labels) instead of Fedora, which is the
> experimental testbed for RHEL.  Fedora Core 4 had a gui application-updater
> that didn't work, and they knew it didn't work, and they were considering
> fixing it in FC 5.   I have Ubuntu on desktops and always seem to end up
> with an alpha version of Ubuntu running somewhere.  I like playing with
> early versions, but it is not for everybody.  Ubuntu updates so often that
> there is a lot of fiddling with the OS to do.  CentOS follows a longer
> development cycle, so it is better for machines that you don't want to be
> messing with day-in-day-out.  Debian current stable, as opposed to
> debian-derived, is supposed to be rock-solid.  My web server is running on
> CentOS.  If I ever bring it in-house, I am probably going to try using
> Debian instead, but just because I like the Ubuntu updater better than yum.
> Wolf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Johnson <larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] ubuntu versus fedora
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:57:50 -0400
>
> At the last ALE meeting I heard a bit of good natured banter about
> ubuntu versus fedora (or debian based versus red hat based).
>
> Since I run both fedora and ubuntu (fedora on my laptop, ubuntu on my
> desktop), and do not consider myself primarily a sysadmin (I'm more of
> a programmer) I've often thought of cataloguing the problems with
> various linux distributions.  My primary problems with the two
> distributions can be summed up simply.  Fedora is much more likely to
> screw around with my network settings (I don't know or care whether
> the fact that I'm running it on a Dell Inspiron laptop is relevant).
> Ubuntu has a nasty habit of dropping my audio on youtube.  Rebooting
> cures the problem.
>
> For purposes of OS ideological comparison neither have happened to me
> on a Windows system, although I consider Microsoft environments to be
> oppressive and untenable in terms of actually getting my work done.
>
> If y'all want more details on the specific versions I'm running, or
> hardware info, I'll be glad to oblige.
>
> Larry
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