Comparing Linux Distros (Week 13)

 

Comparing Linux Distros Ubuntu vs Fedora

Linux is an operating system created by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds on September 17 1991. Linus was heavily inspired by GNU and especially with the use of Mr Richard Stallman’s GNU C compiler without which Linux would not have existed at all. However a little credit has to be given to Mr Andrew Tanenbaum for the creation of the Minix kernel through which Mr Torvalds learnt everything he needed to build Linux in the beginning. However, Minix’s license only restricted it to be used for educational purpose thus forcing the shift to GNU[1]. It is also by far the most successful open source brand towering over every other open-source brand in the world. It was important for Linux to be open source, it is one of the reasons why it is so reliable and has so few reliabilities. Thousands of developers review and develop Linux code, it was also meant to be brilliant under such potent and profound perusal.

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Ubuntu is by far the most popular Linux distribution floating around in the Linux distro bazaar. Based on Debian, it has three different version, the desktop version for the average person most probably a developer, the server edition for websites or cloud computing (Ubuntu is the most popular system for cloud computing) and the Ubuntu core version that is used to power robots and IoT technology[2]. One of the key feature of Ubuntu is that the desktop version supports a wide range of software that also works on windows and Mac OS such as Spotify, Skype, Firefox, Atom, PyCharm etc[3]. A great benefit to working with Ubuntu is that the chance of virus infections is very low due to the aforementioned topics in the above paragraph.

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Fedora on the other hand is the 4th most popular distro in the world[1] and is based on . Similar to Ubuntu, it has three versions, workstations for the average user who is probably a developer, the server version for websites or for cloud computing and then there is the atomic version which is used for working with Internet Of Things (IoT)[2]. A lot of distro hoppers who have used the many versions of Linux agree that Fedora can be described with two key word and those words are “bleeding edge”[4]. In fact this is one of the main reasons that people use Fedora is because it stands proud and ready at the gates of development and always is upgraded to the latest and best version of the software that is physically possible under the current circumstances. This is due to a group of hardcore dedicated and committed red hat hat developers working around the clock to prove that free open source code can be just as good or even better than proprietary software.

In conclusion, both Ubuntu and Red Hat are amazing Linux distros even when they stand alone by themselves. Ubuntu is the safer and more mainstream version to choose from but on the other hand, Fedora is “bleeding edge”. I personally would choose Fedora over Ubuntu

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