Hi Eric;
You are not missing much. We have Ubuntu on one of the machines here.
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:14 -0400, Eric Brackenbury wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:00 -0400, linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca
> wrote:
>
> > Re: Contents of Linux digest..
>
>
> Hi Bill
> Why do you :
> <I use Fedora which has a fresh install about every six months.>
>
> Although I am using Ubuntu 7 and have had it installed for 18 months
> now, I see no need to upgrade or re install.
> Am I missing something here?
My reasons for using Fedora are the following:
* The very first time I tried something Linux-y it was from a
RedHat 7.1 disk that was a magazine give away. Fedora diverged
from RedHat to be the defacto beta (perhaps gamma) version of
their commercial RedHat distributions. So I stuck with
something familiar.
* RedHat has well written manuals that mostly apply to both Fedora
and RedHat.
* Fedora tries to be cutting edge with all the very latest
stable?? applications and kernel versions.
* I started to use Linux not because I needed a production system
(far from it), but because I wanted to learn as much as I could
about OS's and computer hardware. That makes me a dedicated
hobbyist forever playing with the "new".
* There is a certain small joy in being the first one to locate
and report a bonofide bug -- something you can always count on
in the latest Fedora version.
* Because I am always playing around and experimenting, a new
version of Fedora gives me a good excuse every six months or so
to clean out all the cruft and to start again from defaults. My
backups and /home keep any non-defaults I want to use.
* Fedora has a great friendly mailing list.
If you are doing stuff that needs complete stability, stay with Ubuntu.
--
Regards Bill