anyone use fedora?

I was wondering if anyone uses it, or has an opinion about it. I was thinking about giving fedora a whirl.

 

*Raises hand*

I run that and Ubuntu. Running Fedora 8 atm. I personally like it better than ubuntu. Oddly enough, I find Fedora easier to use?? I always get flak from my engineer friends for saying that.

 

lol, i heard that the rpm system is harder than the deb system. Then again, thats what online tutorials are for

 

Then again, what makes Fedora easier to me over ubuntu is I've been using Fedora longer than Ubuntu. Ubuntu does feel more like Windows.

I do like the fact ubuntu is faster and smaller. But I like better the fact Fedora comes with everything in one package. i don't have to click and download 50 packages to get the same thing in Fedora.

I do feel, right out of the box, Ubuntu trashes Fedora.

 

I haven't tried Fedora but I have used Centos, which is just a recompiled Red Hat. I was kinda surprised at some of the differences between Ubuntu and Red Hat, the package installation is interesting, you can download a rpm package and let the installer do everything for you, almost like a windows machine. I even noticed that it'll automatically download any lib files you need to run the program. Its far different then some training videos that would show older versions of Red Hat.

Only drawback I can probably see is there isn't very many programs in the install/uninstaller, where Ubuntu has almost everything in it's. Red Hat also has more of a business type of feel compared to Ubuntu's more home kind of feel.

 

Hi,
i work with debian on servers/desktop and with Red Hat, CentOS on servers/desktop, some fedora on desktops.
1. its not true that rpm distros has worse package handling because now it already can use yum as package handler, which is on pair with aptitude from debian (or .deb based distros). i has gui frontend - yumex
2. from my experience the fedora (even the stable release) needs little tweaking ... this is due to fact, the fedora is always at the first place with implementing new things, i'd say fedora (and particularly red hat company) is behind a lot movement in linux community, so if you use latest fedora, be ready for to be on the bleeding edge of new things at the cost of discovering bug from time to time.
I gave try to brand new fedora core 9 (released a few days ago), but i quit it, since on my notebook the network service was after boot deactivated, browsers in offline mode (had to reactivate it by hand) etc - some bug and i didnt have the time to play with it .... but it already has kde 4 and lot lot new things implemented ...
3. i run on my notebook CentOS 5.1 - waiting on new 5.2 eagerly ... this distro is red hat (only recompiled) so i enjoy stability of enterprise system on my ntb - at the cost of older kernel, older glibc etc etc

So to make some conclusion - yes fedora is perfect distro - for some ppl who're not afraid of linux. I dont think its for complete beginners - due to some troubles you need to solve when using it. Otherwise, it has cool repositories, cool package handling, cool gui frontends for administering system (which is good for beginners).
If you need more worked out system at the cost of a bit older things - i'd go with *buntu.
And if you need rock stable things - CentOS (or Red Hat). From completely free distros Debian stable (etch).