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Fedora 8 A Serious Threat to Ubuntu

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-sure-couldn't-talk-more-about-themselves dept.

Tubs writes "According to MadPenguin.org's latest article, Fedora 8 from Red Hat is a serious threat to Ubuntu. The author writes, "I was never that swept up with past releases of Fedora. There was nothing compelling about it. But for the first time, I cannot help but feel that the Fedora team has been spoon fed an extra helping of Wheaties, which has put them into overdrive with their accessibility efforts."

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  1. Linux Wars? by ThePromenader · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wouldn't consider one open-source project to be a danger to another...

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    No, no sig. Really.

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    1. Re:Linux Wars? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's pretty much what I came in here to say.

      Why does the most recent Fedora seem so competitive to Ubuntu? Well probably because they're pulling their updates from a lot of the same places.

      But if you want to imagine the two groups fighting it out, go right ahead. Insofar as they are competing, there's only one possible winner: us. Each group is trying to improve Linux more, each will feed off of the other's improvements, and the end result will be a better FOSS operating system that will be accessible to all of us.

      Good luck to both of them.

  2. I object to the word "threat". by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In F/OSS environments we welcome alternatives and diversity.

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  3. They are the Same by ArkiMage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've installed both on the same machine within the past 2 weeks. Once the desktop is up and I'm clicking around it would be very difficult to tell which OS is running on the box except for the backdrop and default color scheme. Gnome 2.20 is pretty much Gnome 2.20 no matter which distro it sits on top of. Icon placement, desktop panels, menu arrangement, they were pretty much identical. Who cares about apt vs yum either, click Applications->Add/Remove Software and point'n'click your way through installing whatever you need installed.

    There is no "war" between distros. I can run Firefox on any Linux distro. Same goes for Amarok, K3B, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, etc...

    Get over it.