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