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Fedora and long term supportFedora and long term supportPosted Oct 17, 2008 21:31 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: Fedora and long term support by kh Parent article: Fedora and long term support
Why aren't you using debian then?
-jef
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Debian? Posted Oct 17, 2008 23:56 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]
Debian doesn't have an LTS version either. :-P
It had what looked like a LTS version because of its rather long release cycle, but it seems that the Debian maintainers are fixing that.
Fedora and long term support Posted Oct 18, 2008 13:35 UTC (Sat) by kh (subscriber, #19413) [Link]
I have to admit that the primary reason was at first mostly pragmatic, Ubuntu seemed like less work than Debian. (I come from a background of Solaris, HP-UX, Slackware, Redhat/Fedora.) Most of the Debian users I have met in real life seem to have different computing priorities than me. I am not trying to be critical of Redhat or Debian.
I put Ubuntu on my son's computer, then my notebook, then transitioned a couple servers. It was a sometimes painful experience. (e.g. I realize many people would call me odd, and for a number of reasons, ;-) but I really prefer sendmail, and I ran into Ubuntu specific bugs in sendmail, and then others in postfix after I gave up on fighting the sendmail battle during my first server trials with early versions of Ubuntu.)
With all that said, I would not consider Debian now because I want a commercial company to do well in the Linux business. Actually, I want many to do well, and Redhat is one of my favorite companies - I really do not wish to criticize Redhat, it's employees, or Fedora. Their products just do not quite fit my needs right now. I still recommend RHEL, and have helped other companies deploy it. I do not think Fedora is appropriate for production servers though, unless the admins have a lot more time and energy than I do.
Fedora and long term support Posted Oct 18, 2008 15:25 UTC (Sat) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867) [Link]
Unless you're paying Canonical for Ubuntu support, leaving Debian out as a choice doesn't make sense. Improvements to Debian (which include translations, packaging, fixing bugs, or even just filing bug reports) also improve Ubuntu. Ubuntu regularly rebases on Debian, at which point Debian's improvements (as well as so Debian's newly introduced bugs) find their way into Ubuntu. If you help squash those bugs in Debian, they won't be there affecting Ubuntu users. Also note that there are other commercial distributions basing their work on Debian, so improvements to Debian also improve those.
By all means, if you're looking for commercial support, go with Ubuntu (or RHEL).
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