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Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux

Posted by timothy on from the all-good-all-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a report on heise, Intel is switching from using Ubuntu to the Fedora Project for the second version of the Intel supported Mobile & Internet Linux Project Moblin, citing a desire to use RPM package management." So far, of the various subnotebooks I've been glancing at over shoulders at OSCON, though, most of the ones with an easily identified operating system seem to be running Ubuntu.

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  1. Problems... by Darkness404 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fedora by design isn't a *real* distro. It is a testing ground for RHEL. Now, Fedora is usable, and nice and all. But Ubuntu is a *real* distro, you don't have to pay for the "full" version. With Ubuntu, you get Debian cleaned up. With Fedora you get all the bits and pieces that make up RHEL in a developer-oriented way.

    Intel needs to give people a real distro, not a "trial" version of RHEL.

    And by the way, RPM (at least the "true" RPM versions) seem to be outdated and DEB in most ways is superior. (Note: Not trying to start a flame war, but merely stating facts)

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  2. 7yrs with Linux and dead set on DEB by TheGreatOrangePeel · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    My 7yrs with Linux distro's sums up to this: Mandrake -> Red Hat -> SuSE -> Red Hat -> OpenSuSE -> CentOS -> Debian

    HOLY CRAP are DEB packages so much less painful than RPMs. All my machines have gone Debian (server) or Ubuntu (workstations) and I haven't looked back. Talked to a guy using OpenSuSE very recently and when he said he was having problems with RPMs, I couldn't hold back my scoffing snort ... what's more, I was nice enough to try.

    RPMs can burn in the dependency hell that they came from.

    /rant