On 11/15/2011 02:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
Fedora is basically an incubator for new technologies and as such not really an attractive system to install for end-users. If you deal with servers you probably go with CentOS, SL, Debian, etc. and if you want a desktop you probably use Ubuntu.
I don't really agree with this. If you are using CentOS on servers it is much easier to use Fedora on laptops, since Fedora is so similar in operation to CentOS. In fact CentOS is more or less identical to an ancient version of Fedora.
That's why I'm running Fedora too but then I'm not an end-user but an administrator/developer i.e. I actually know how to deal with the intricacies of the system and how to keep my system up-to-date in the absence of a direct upgrade path. Users who don't know much about system management cannot really deal with the complexities that arise from Fedoras fast development progress.
Incidentally, I don't really understand what is meant by the term "desktop" nowadays. I always think of it as a contrast to laptop. But isn't everyone today using laptops for everyday use?
Desktop in this context basically means a system with a GUI that's primarily used through an attached monitor and keyboard as opposed to a server that has no GUI installed and is primarily managed through ssh/IPMI.
Regards, Dennis