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Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

Posted Sep 8, 2010 14:40 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10 by mitchskin
Parent article: Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

"Fedora is starting to find its niche with the early adopters of new linux technology, and Ubuntu's niche is more in making things user friendly (which is not to say that Fedora isn't user friendly, or that Ubuntu doesn't have cutting-edge tech, just that their focus is different)."

Not really. Basically, what you have is two distros that have a more ground-breaking release (I think Ubuntu's was in April), and then you have a few polishing releases where mostly they keep the underpinnings stable and polish things. Fedora is in the groundbreaking phase of their cycle; Ubuntu is in the polish phase. Intel calls it "tick" and "tock."


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Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

Posted Sep 8, 2010 19:25 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

You will probably find such major changes pretty much in every Fedora cycle. This is actually one of the quieter ones except for systemd.

Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

Posted Sep 21, 2010 22:40 UTC (Tue) by AdamW (guest, #48457) [Link]

Fedora doesn't have any such thing. A Fedora release is just a Fedora release. There's no planned 'adventurous' and 'polishing' releases.

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