This comparison of Fedora and Ubuntu misses the point. Fedora is a bleeding edge flavor of Linux, it serves as an introduction to some of the latest software available in the Open Source world. Fedora is based on RedHat, so if you plan to do development in Linux, knowing your way around RedHat Linux flavors (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) will serve you well. On the other hand, if you are a more casual user and don't mind not being exposed to the inner workings of then OS, then by all means go with Ubuntu.
I started using Fedora with version 5, I remember compiling the ndiswrapper from source, at a time when I hand no clue what compiling was .. those were the times.
BTW for anybody interested in Linux, visit http://linuxquestions.org they have a very vibrant and friendly community willing to help you out.
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This comparison of Fedora and Ubuntu misses the point. Fedora is a bleeding edge flavor of Linux, it serves as an introduction to some of the latest software available in the Open Source world. Fedora is based on RedHat, so if you plan to do development in Linux, knowing your way around RedHat Linux flavors (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) will serve you well. On the other hand, if you are a more casual user and don't mind not being exposed to the inner workings of then OS, then by all means go with Ubuntu.
I started using Fedora with version 5, I remember compiling the ndiswrapper from source, at a time when I hand no clue what compiling was .. those were the times.
BTW for anybody interested in Linux, visit http://linuxquestions.org they have a very vibrant and friendly community willing to help you out.
I find it interesting that they're aiming at windows developers with this release with the whole mingw thing...
...very interesting....
Many developers use Visual Studio at work (which is highly regarded by them), my guess is that this project seeks to close that gap.