Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better? (Datamation)

[Posted February 3, 2010 by ris]

Bruce Byfield looks at Fedora and Ubuntu. "In the last five years, both Fedora and Ubuntu have attracted large and rapidly growing communities, often governed by codes of conduct and having their own in-person meetings -- FUDCon for Fedora and the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu. Members of both are also active in other free and open source software meetings, especially GNOME's GUADEC. In short, Fedora and Ubuntu have evolved surprisingly similar structures. The main difference lies in their goals: Ubuntu aims to provide "an open-source alternative to Windows and Office," and is currently focusing on usability improvements, while Fedora's goal is to create "a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software.""

Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better? (Datamation)

Posted Feb 4, 2010 23:53 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

> Ubuntu aims to provide "an open-source alternative to Windows and Office," and is currently focusing on usability improvements, while Fedora's goal is to create "a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software."

Good Lord. If that truly is the case then I'm using the wrong distro!

Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better? (Datamation)

Posted Feb 6, 2010 1:59 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

out of curiosity, which distro are you using that you think you shouldn't be if this is true?

No GUI Root Login

Posted Feb 8, 2010 9:56 UTC (Mon) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

He seems to think that preventing GUI logins as root is somehow meant to deter bad guys. Its not. Its to reduce the risk from buggy GUI apps damaging your system, or opening holes that bad guys can exploit.