Re: Ubuntu versus Fedora for cross-development host
- From: jimthomasembedded@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:16:05 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 30, 4:09 pm, "andrew queisser" <andrew.queis...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Just out of curiosity - what would make one distribution more or less
palatable to you?
That's a little hard to express.
Red Hat was my favorite in the early days, when the spirit of the
product was driven by developers scratching their own itch. I almost
dropped out after using Red Hat 7 and 8, but returned for Red Hat 9,
which was excellent.
I was disappointed when Red Hat shifted their focus, there was no Red
Hat 10, and they made a half-hearted effort at spinning out Fedora
Core. I switched to Debian at home (Sarge and Etch), and have been
very happy. Debian still seems to be made by people with talent, who
are motivated by engineering excellence.
I have continued to use Fedora at work, and it is fine, but there is
something about it that smacks of 'me too', and second best. I
haven't used Ubuntu, but I am drawn to it because it is Debian based,
and it seems to have a very large and enthusiastic user community.
I prefer Debian headless (ssh/telnet, vim, and command line tools),
but Eclipse GUI single-step debugging wrapped around gdb/gdbserver
makes a Linux GUI interesting for cross-development. (I prefer printf
for debugging, but I need to set up Eclipse GUI debugging for some
other folks.) So if I need to go with a GUI, then I am attracted to
Debian based Ubuntu, but in the end I will probably stay with Fedora
since it is mainstream, and a shorter hop to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
when that is necessary.
Thanks to all who responded.
.
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