Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-26 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:07:11 -0700 suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Nikolaus, > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > > went with Debian.

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Piscium
On 25 April 2011 15:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/25/2011 07:42 PM, Piscium wrote: >> >> Yours is a good point, and also the way I see things. So yes, >> everything I use on a regular basis is available in the repos I have >> currently enabled, plus a package or two in Atrpms. And there are al

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/25/2011 07:42 PM, Piscium wrote: > > Yours is a good point, and also the way I see things. So yes, > everything I use on a regular basis is available in the repos I have > currently enabled, plus a package or two in Atrpms. And there are also > two applications that I build from source, but t

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Piscium
On 25 April 2011 13:16, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> The total of 25 K is misleading as some packages are counted twice, so >> the Fedora total is probably around 20-22 K. Also there are other >> repos that I have not enabled, such as Atrpms. > > This isn't really a good comparison as the same comman

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/25/2011 05:32 PM, Piscium wrote: > Debian has an advantage on number of packages available. Debian claims > on its website to have 30 K packages. And this is on Fedora: > > [xx@d3000 ~]$ yum repolist > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto > Adding en_IE to language list > repo id

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Piscium
On 18 April 2011 14:01, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Nothing of this is really essential, but these are nice Debian features > that Fedora apparenttly doesn't have. Now I would like to know about > stuff comparable to this that Fedora has, but Debian hasn't (I'm sure > there are many). Debian has an a

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Roger writes: >> Hi Nikolaus >> >> I'm thinking that you could make yourself a list of what apps you would >> like to have and another of what apps you really need to do your thing >> for both and compare. I have not found the problem you m

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 04/16/2011 09:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >> I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly >> unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart >> is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports veg

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Roger writes: > Hi Nikolaus > > I'm thinking that you could make yourself a list of what apps you would > like to have and another of what apps you really need to do your thing > for both and compare. I have not found the problem you mention, of apps > for one that are not on another. I am not ta

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-18 Thread Tom Horsley
> But dual and triple boot with two drives is > workable. Actually a gazillion boot system with only one drive is workable: I had about 17 different linuxes on a box at work, all sharing a single small /boot partition by doing a dd command to copy out one /boot and copy in another when I wanted t

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I must say I don't blame you. I'd rather use Apple than Ubuntu, myself. > I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irrit

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-18 Thread Andrew Haley
On 17/04/11 02:37, JD wrote: > > Keep in mind that all the developers have regular jobs besides > hacking linux, Not all of them. :-) > so they are not there to jump at our beck and call. That's true, though. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-17 Thread Roger
Hi Nikolaus I'm thinking that you could make yourself a list of what apps you would like to have and another of what apps you really need to do your thing for both and compare. I have not found the problem you mention, of apps for one that are not on another. I was a Fedora user since Red Hat 6.5

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-17 Thread lowstz
2011/4/17 Nikolaus Rath > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I want to switch distri

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Guilherme Patriota
On 17 April 2011 01:14, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > > > Just to be clear: I am *not* interested in starting a Debian vs Fedor

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: [snip] > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > Dunno if this helps, but: https://kororaa.org/why-fedora/ -c -- u

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Guilherme Patriota
On 17 April 2011 01:14, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > > > Best, > > -Nikolaus > > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Nikolaus, On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > I don't exactly knwo what Debian unstable offers these days, bu

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread James McKenzie
On 4/16/11 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I want t

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread JD
On 04/16/2011 06:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I wa

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/17/2011 09:23 AM, Digimer wrote: > Fedora is more security-focused where Ubuntu is more usability focused. > Your first user in Fedora will not have sudo setup. You will need to > setup sudo yourself or use su as needed. FYI, this is changed in the coming F15. When you create the user on in

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Digimer
On 04/16/2011 09:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I w

Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in Launchpad. Therefore I want to switch distributions, and I have already narrowed