On 16/05/07, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In our experience, Fedora is rock-solid, at least in comparison to Windows. My work machine runs until there is a new kernel upgrade. Most of the Fedora machines run BOINC (We are R&D) in the background as well as our Fedora Cluster.
I find that Windows (when I last used it over a year and a half ago) and Fedora have different stability problems. Windows dies/BSOD's/resets itself in the middle of work. Fedora does not, but sometimes certain features stop working (ie, VMWare).
Some people have just installed Ubuntu onto their work machines.
Which I just did yesterday. The Ubuntu install on my particular hardware was more difficult than the Fedora install. As much as anaconda is bashed, I love it. However, Ubuntu (once running) is (in my experience) stable in that if something worked yesterday, then it will work today. It does need a lot of tweaking out of the box, however, unless one likes to live in a Windows copycat world. Using KDE instead of the default Gnome helps.
>> An example is where I work, for multimedia work, Ubuntu is a better >> choice. We needed a machine to run videos and other multimedia files >> that won't run on Windows machines. We now have a Ubuntu machine just >> for this purpose. >> >> For secure work, Fedora looks better. The best example of this is the >> dreaded SELinux. In Fedora, this is default but Ubuntu it is an add-on. >> >> In regards to updates, I was watching Synaptic (sp?) update the Ubuntu >> machine and to be honest, I didn't see any difference between kyum and >> it on the front end. >> >> There may be problems with yum and rpm but I have not found that to be >> in my case. I have found yum to be quite handy and my only issues come >> more from the different repositories than yum or rpm. >> >> So, for now, I will stick with Fedora due to the security issues. If >> Ubuntu decides to follow suite, then I will look at it again. That is >> as long as I can find secondary repositories that will meet my >> multimedia requirements. > > You'll ifnd that enabling non-free software is a lot easier in Ubuntu > than in Fedora. Not that it's difficult in Fedora, but in Ubuntu, one > can click on an MP3, then click Yes Yes Yes until it plays. > > Dotan Cohen > It didn't work that well on the machine I witnessed being setup but it was no worse than Fedora. As long as you can find a decent HowTo on setting up Multimedia, then life is great.
After the install and tweaking to personal liking, the difference between distros is in the maintnance. While I prefer yum to apt-get, I find that Ubuntu doesn't break things in regular use. Also, it boots _fast_, due to having less services running, I'm sure (No SSH, no IPTables, etc...). Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
