Fedora Vs. Ubuntu

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Fedora Vs. Ubuntu

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Ok, so I've installed Fedora Core 6...
The problem is, that a friend keep telling me to move to Ubuntu.
What should I do? Which one you use/suggest and why?

Thanks :D
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I don't want to get into a whole big distro debate, but I'll mention that the final straw for me was package management. RedHat's distros became a major headache for me over the long term dealing with dependancies. I find Ubuntu and Debian much more friendly when it comes to package management.
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Yeah, I used the package manager to uninstall some GNOME Developmet tools which I didn't need and it screw the whole GUI :?
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I agree with ~veridicus, it's all about the package management ;)

(Although one of my recent forum posts shows my lack of experience with apt :P)
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So you would go with Ubuntu?
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Oren wrote:So you would go with Ubuntu?
I already do go with Ubuntu for a Linux desktop. And just plain old Debian (the system Ubuntu is built on) for servers.
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At my job we work with both Fedora (and related distros like CentOS) and Ubuntu/Debian for hosting web sites and mail. The person who does our detailed admin work says he has the least amount of package issues with Debian and he also prefers the default settings for various packages (file locations, configurations, etc.).

I just got a new VPS account and set up Debian by myself for the first time. I definitely prefered it over my past Fedora experiences. Even when I totally screwed up my email setup yesterday it took only a minute to get it back to the original set of packages and configuration.
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try it!
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I certainly will. Downloading Ubuntu right now :D
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By the way, what should I do to totally clean my HD before installing Ubuntu on it? (right now it only has Fedora Core 6 on it)
Do I just insert the CD and Ubuntu will do the rest for me or should I first clean the HD before installing Ubuntu?
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Oren wrote:By the way, what should I do to totally clean my HD before installing Ubuntu on it? (right now it only has Fedora Core 6 on it)
Do I just insert the CD and Ubuntu will do the rest for me or should I first clean the HD before installing Ubuntu?
Ubuntu should offer to erase the partition for you :)
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Like I thought :P
Thanks pal :wink:
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Fedora has a brilliant package manager called 'Yum'. It even installs the dependencies you need. And it looks really cool when it's installing a package (from a console).
You can even run 'yum update' and it will update every package, genius!

On another note though I've never used Ubuntu so I couldn't comment which is better. I've heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu but I've used a lot of good things in Fedora.

I've learned a lot from using Redhat Linux/Fedora Core in the past few years because it hasn't done many things for me, it's put me in position where I've had to use bash and learn commands, and now I find myself a comfident Linux user. Apparantly Ubuntu has a lot of wizards installed which do a lot of work for you. That's not to say the option of doing the work yourself is taken away though.
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Post by Jenk »

apt-get is Ubuntu's (Debian's) in-box package manager, but if you really wanted to, you can use a different one on any distro.
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