[ale] ubuntu versus fedora

[Jim Kinney]

Fedora's bleeding edge (knife just entered the wrist) use of network manager
has been a thorn in their otherwise pretty solid builds. They have finally
backed off the use of development (pre-alpha IMO) versions and it's become
stable and usefull. The first iterations were sorry incomplete gui crap over
multiple config files. It still seems to use a special file set for
networkmanager that then writes the real network config files. So a manual
edit of the real config files is a very bad thing. Grrr.

On Apr 17, 2010 10:03 AM, "Larry Johnson" <larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com>
wrote:

At the last ALE meeting I heard a bit of good natured banter about
ubuntu versus fedora (or debian based versus red hat based).

Since I run both fedora and ubuntu (fedora on my laptop, ubuntu on my
desktop), and do not consider myself primarily a sysadmin (I'm more of
a programmer) I've often thought of cataloguing the problems with
various linux distributions.  My primary problems with the two
distributions can be summed up simply.  Fedora is much more likely to
screw around with my network settings (I don't know or care whether
the fact that I'm running it on a Dell Inspiron laptop is relevant).
Ubuntu has a nasty habit of dropping my audio on youtube.  Rebooting
cures the problem.

For purposes of OS ideological comparison neither have happened to me
on a Windows system, although I consider Microsoft environments to be
oppressive and untenable in terms of actually getting my work done.

If y'all want more details on the specific versions I'm running, or
hardware info, I'll be glad to oblige.

Larry
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