Hi, On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 17:20 +0530, Aditya Patawari wrote: > Hi, > > Last I used ubuntu was when Fedora 11 was released. I faced a lot of > crashes with Fedora and was forced to move to another distro. Ubuntu > was the next best choice because of its easy availability. > > One major thing I found when I used it was that it was very stable and > I never saw any crash. It turned out that Ubuntu freezes its version > when it releases its distro. It means that if Ubuntu is initially > shipped with XYZ-1.0 and with a few days XYZ-2.0 is released, they > won't update it unless any major security issue is there. As a result > Ubuntu users do get old stuff at times but that stuff is very well > tested and hence fewer crashes. In Fedora we try to provide users with > latest tools and softwares and at times we pay the price of slightly > unstable release.
This has somewhat been implemented with the updates policy[1] (which has been around for quite a while now). > > Right now I am using Fedora 13 KDE and it crashes a few times but > recovers on its own. Personally I don't see it as a big trouble but I > can imagine that a beginner would not want a bug report on his desktop > very frequently. I am not aware about the state of GNOME desktop. I hope you've filed relevant bugs? :P For some reason, I haven't experienced even a single crash this release :D > > In the end it is just about your needs and your guts to experiment. > Personally I believe Fedora is awesome if you want to learn stuff and > want to remain on the top of technology. Who would like to see an > outdated tool sitting peacefully while new versions are released > everyday. > I understand this. I just want to be clear on whether ubuntu is the "easiest to use" distro, or the "easiest to obtain" distro. Since the community has seen a sort of shift towards making fedora more usable as compared to cutting edge as earlier, I would not like it to be the former. Thanks, regards, Ankur _______________________________________________ india mailing list india@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
