Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2010 11:18 PM EDT
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Fedora or Ubuntu? That is a question that Linux users are asking with increasing frequency. The question is not random -- the two distributions have consistently topped the downloads on Distrowatch for the last two years. Read Fedora and Ubuntu mail forums, and users who despair of one are constantly announcing their intention to try the other. Although other distributions, including Linux Mint, openSUSE, and Mandriva, offer comparable features, for better or worse Fedora and Ubuntu are widely viewed as the desktop distributions of choice. Unsurprisingly, you can find dozens of comparisons of the two on the Internet. However, except for one posted on PolishLinux.org, few answers are detailed enough to be of much use. And since the one on PolishLinux.org was made in 2006, it’s at least six versions behind the current releases (Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10). So a new extended answer seems overdue.

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and why you would pick either one over debian?? Alcibiades 4 1,105 Feb 4, 2010 2:06 PM

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