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Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux
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.
Stop it. This is a total troll and is 100% FUD. Fedora isn't a "trial" version at all -- it's a bleeding edge distro made for people who don't need commercial-grade support for their distro, but they want a Red Hat based system.
Yes, but you can't ignore the fact that Red Hat uses Fedora as the basis of RHEL. Much how OOo is used as Sun's trial version of Star Office.
Think of it this way, what is the edition of Ubuntu that IBM would get? A) The Ubuntu you download off Ubuntu's website or B) Some super enterprise system that isn't available for download? The answer of course is A. Now what is the version of Red Hat that IBM would get A) Fedora, the Red Hat you can download from Red Hat's site* or B) RHEL that IBM has to pay and has features not included in Fedora. The answer for that is B.
No matter how you cut it, Red Hat wants to, and needs to make Fedora inferior to RHEL in order to sell it, either in features, stability or someway else. Ubuntu does the same thing as Red Hat, they sell support, but your Ubuntu you download is the same Ubuntu they support, the same Ubuntu that everyone from Shuttleworth, to the president of a major corporation, to some poor kid in a public school uses.
*Yes, I do know that CentOS does exist and that it is RHEL, but still, my point stands.
Plus, Fedora isn't just "usable," it's awesome. Far from being a collection of bits and pieces, it's a coherent, organized collection of software -- in short, it's everything you expect a distro to be.
Not really. In my tests, on the same hardware, Fedora 8 ran super slow compared to my Ubuntu 7.10/8.04 installed on a different partition, all of them were stock installs. Fedora also takes a long time to install packages compared to Ubuntu. Plus, Ubuntu's repos are larger than Fedora's.
Give me one reason that Fedora is better than Ubuntu and I will belive you, but as it stands, though Fedora is decent, Ubuntu just does everything so much better.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
yes, anyone can do a deb or rpm package so more specifically speaking, packages in Redhat repos seem to cause a lot of problems while there seem to be far fewer issues with packages in Ubuntu repos.
maybe the bit about rpm packages and licensing is yet another reason for Intel overlooking the history of RH packaging issues compared to Ubuntu deb packaging.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
I attempted to clarify that what I was referring to was Redhat repository based packages and not offsite user posted packages. I also was saying that a bunch of RedHat based admin types and a few other Fedora users seem to have alot of problems which are 100% based on packaging issues.
I don't get the impression that many of these post bugs either but one did say he once posted a bug report and it was address quickly.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
wishes, A Beautiful Mind is not A Mutable Find....
Try again...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Could you please step from under your Canonical rock and take a look at other distros?
All current rpm-based distros use modern package management that are, to say the least, equal to apt-get
CentOS has yum (and apt-get for rpm too)
Fedora has yum (and apt-get for rpm too)
Mandriva has urpmi (and apt-get for rpm, and smart)
PCLinuxOS has smart
SuSE has yast
yum, urpmi and apt4rpm exist since at least 2004
Looks like you drank the kool-aid from Canonical and believe Ubuntu is the one and only Linux distro and all the others cannot compare.
I'm so tired of Ubuntu 1337 users that know nothing else.