Two days ago, the Red Hat-sponsored project Fedora pushed out its latest release Fedora 19. We read a lot about how the latest version is offering impressive features, all with the new Federated VoIP, high-availability features, advanced firewall security and the latest PHP 5.5 stack. So we were wondering if the latest Fedora version is as good as the most popular Linux distro of 2013 i.e. Canonical's Ubuntu.
Though any newbie Linux user usually wants to try his hands on Ubuntu, but if in case you are willing to make a change and Fedora seems fascinating to you, here's is the difference between Fedora and Ubuntu.
Installation process:
One important and interesting feature for which the two distros are being praised is the installation process! Developers behind both the Linux distros have done a brilliant job by ensuring that installation of Ubuntu and Fedora is as easy as possible. Installation of both the distros are as easy as selecting the desired partitions and continuing with clicking next on next!
Plus both the distros offer spin which means you can install both Fedora with KDE or Ubuntu with KDE.
Who Wins: Tie!
Software Availability:
This is one round where Ubuntu will get an upper hand! The distro has ample of software available. A part of it is because of its popularity and that software creators support Debian packages. This can further be expanded via Ubuntu's Personal Package Archives (PPAs).
On the other hand, Fedora has missed out on working on this aspect unfortunately. Though it is not that difficult to locate its RPM packages through the RPM search engines, but majorly Fedora's package availability is not even close to Ubuntu.
Who Wins: Ubuntu.
Software Management
While Ubuntu uses Debian package management system, Fedora is backed by PackageKit. Ubuntu users have the Ubuntu Software center to install and remove the software and Fedora users use yum.
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