[CLUE-Tech] Fedora vs Debain

[Greg Knaddison]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> Maybe I can tolerate the RH branding and filesystem personality.  I 
> did so far in the past.  One other thing that has annoyed me is that 
> RH treated all their versions of Linux as completely different 
> operating systems.  In other words, you never really could "upgrade RH 
> 7 to RH 8" without screwing something up.  I wish they would have 
> taken that approach.  That is one attractive thing about Debian... I 
> feel like you can just upgrade it forever.


Angelo,

Fedora is working to make sure you can move from RH9 to FC1 to FC2.  
That is one of the test goals of FC2-test2 which is currently released 
for testing (I think I read this in their announcement of the FC2-test2 
release). 

Based upon your other comments about the ease of picking packages under 
RH/FC - I would recommend you stick with Fedora.  They seem to be doing 
lots of work towards removing packages that provide duplicate 
functionality in favor of "best of breed" applications for each 
purpose.  LILO is gone.  pine is gone.  Of course, that doesn't mean you 
have to use the package they feel is best of breed...the fedura-users 
mailing list has plenty of info about adding in your own packages 
including fun stuff like window managers (which may help reduce the 
impact of their branding).

Greg