WEEK 13. The Story of Linux: Comparison Ubuntu - Fedora
Comparison Ubuntu - Fedora
Ubuntu was born in 2004 from the need to give to people a stable, free, and open-source system. It was born from Debian that was a famous system that had quite a bad reputation from the point of view of user-friendliness and frequency of update. Ubuntu was created by Canonical, a private society that works to maintain and continuously support the Operative System.
Talking about desktop environments Ubuntu used Unity since version 18.04 then switched to GNOME. The reason was that Unity was not able to provide a graphically attractive solution for Windows or Mac OS users, while GNOME allows that giving the chance to obtain customers.
The first release of Fedora was in 2003 called Fedora Core 1 and that was a system developed by Red Hat with the goal to collect a lot of different free technologies under the same operative system.
So the main purpose of Fedora was to build an operative system with a lot of functionalities thanks to the support of the community of GNU Linux. Also, in this case, the actual default desktop environment is GNOME.
So even though the two distributions were born from two different sources and with two different goals in mind, they both have achieved a similar point: they are two open-source, free, and continuously updated operative systems with a strong and efficient community of users and developers.
My personal preference would go for Ubuntu since that is the most famous Linux distribution with the biggest community. So in search of support or information, it is way easier for me to obtain those for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu was born in 2004 from the need to give to people a stable, free, and open-source system. It was born from Debian that was a famous system that had quite a bad reputation from the point of view of user-friendliness and frequency of update. Ubuntu was created by Canonical, a private society that works to maintain and continuously support the Operative System.
Talking about desktop environments Ubuntu used Unity since version 18.04 then switched to GNOME. The reason was that Unity was not able to provide a graphically attractive solution for Windows or Mac OS users, while GNOME allows that giving the chance to obtain customers.
The first release of Fedora was in 2003 called Fedora Core 1 and that was a system developed by Red Hat with the goal to collect a lot of different free technologies under the same operative system.
So the main purpose of Fedora was to build an operative system with a lot of functionalities thanks to the support of the community of GNU Linux. Also, in this case, the actual default desktop environment is GNOME.
So even though the two distributions were born from two different sources and with two different goals in mind, they both have achieved a similar point: they are two open-source, free, and continuously updated operative systems with a strong and efficient community of users and developers.
My personal preference would go for Ubuntu since that is the most famous Linux distribution with the biggest community. So in search of support or information, it is way easier for me to obtain those for Ubuntu.
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