Re:Fedora 24 was released
by rkangel on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:04PM
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Reasons vary and this is a long. You're best off understanding the main families too - Debian based (e.g. Ubuntu) and RedHat based (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS).
My personal feelings in short form:
Ubuntu - User friendly. Good workstation out the box particularly for media (I use it for an HTPC). Good for people newer to Linux.
Debian - Solidly reliable. Is the base underneath Ubuntu, and as such has a lot less stuff in by default, thereby giving you the flexibility to set it up how you want.
RHEL - Provides good corporate support, costs money.
Fedora - A cutting edge, free, RedHat. I now mostly use this. At work we end up having to use RedHat on some workstations (so makes sense to use Fedora for places where we can't), and some servers need securing with SELinux (which is only really feasibly on the RedHat family).
Arch - Gives you ultimate customisability at the cost of effort (think of it at one end of an axis with Ubuntu at the other and Debian in the middle).
My personal feelings in short form:
Ubuntu - User friendly. Good workstation out the box particularly for media (I use it for an HTPC). Good for people newer to Linux.
Debian - Solidly reliable. Is the base underneath Ubuntu, and as such has a lot less stuff in by default, thereby giving you the flexibility to set it up how you want.
RHEL - Provides good corporate support, costs money.
Fedora - A cutting edge, free, RedHat. I now mostly use this. At work we end up having to use RedHat on some workstations (so makes sense to use Fedora for places where we can't), and some servers need securing with SELinux (which is only really feasibly on the RedHat family).
Arch - Gives you ultimate customisability at the cost of effort (think of it at one end of an axis with Ubuntu at the other and Debian in the middle).