What's the difference between Ubuntu and Fedora?

[stsinner]

Are there major differences, or is it just whatever one prefers? I mainly deal with pictures and photoraphy and the Internet, so is one better than the other for this?

thanks.

[techieMoe]

Are there major differences, or is it just whatever one prefers? I mainly deal with pictures and photoraphy and the Internet, so is one better than the other for this?

thanks.

Neither is better or worse for what you do. It's basically down to personal preference. Fedora uses a different underlying install/uninstall program than Ubuntu, but from an end-user perspective you're unlikely to notice a difference.

[stsinner]

thanks, techie..

I'm literally BRAND NEW to Linux, but my wife works for EMC corp., and the geeks there use it. So I figured that if a multi-million dollar company that the Pentagon and Homeland Security uses for their email security uses it, I need to get on the bandwagon!

Quick question, should you return to this thread... I'm clueless about installing the things I download.. I miss the ease of them being executables that you can just double-click on in Windows.. Is there a standard way to download things you want to install, and what's with the different types offered at download time?

The only thing I've been FINALLY successful at getting installed, and it was very important, is Adobe Flash Player, and i downloaded the .RPM file, instead of the other two that were offered.. Care to bring me up to speed on this aspect of Linux?

Thanks.

[oz]

I'm clueless about installing the things I download.. I miss the ease of them being executables that you can just double-click on in Windows.. Is there a standard way to download things you want to install, and what's with the different types offered at download time?

Welcome to the forums!

You can check out Synaptic for installing software under Ubuntu, or YUM for installing under Fedora. I think they are both installed by default, now.

[jayd512]

Most of the software that you'll need can be installed with yum. It's as simple as

yum install <package_name>

If it's not available, you can install the RPM files by downloading the file and executing

rpm -ivh <package_name>

Both of these should also install any dependencies needed.

[b2bwild]

Well here is the comparison between both --> polishlinux.org Ubuntu vs Fedora

You can compare it with others distros too.

[Roxoff]

rpm -ivh <package_name>

Both of these should also install any dependencies needed.

I hate to break it to you, but rpm will not resolve dependencies, it'll just barf if they're not satisfied. Unresolved dependencies me this way need to be downloaded and added to the same rpm command that installs the first file.

[b2bwild]

well, but PackageKit does, like dpkg doesn't but gdebi does.

Its like

rpm = dpkg
Gnome PackageKit (gpk-install-local-file) = gdebi
YUM = apt-get

[engless]

Fedora has its origins in Redhat and uses RPM packages.
Ubuntu is based on Debian and use DEB package format. It's also perhaps the distribution prefered by 'windows users'.

If it just photos and graphics you may want to look at Dyne:bolic (live CD).

[jayd512]

I hate to break it to you, but rpm will not resolve dependencies, it'll just barf if they're not satisfied. Unresolved dependencies me this way need to be downloaded and added to the same rpm command that installs the first file.

Oops...
Thanks for catching that, Roxoff.
Guess that proves it... Never post when you're half asleep!

Again, good eye, and thanks for clarifying!