I've not had much (if any) issue with dependency hell on recent (fedora9+) versions of Fedora, but I believe there are more packages available for Ubuntu. ItJustWorks has been better and better on Fedora, my new laser printer install was a breeze (something I've not seen on Linux EVER) and I regularly put stuff on both my Blackberry and my Kindle without problem. The only thing that requires fiddling with is my Nvidia graphics card, and that's one time at install. Fedora is on 6mo releases now too. But I've seen that lots of times the things I get out of the fedora repos are pretty old, like I get ruby 1.8.6 unless I install it by hand and I've been loathe to do that if I don't absolutely have to.
I'm pretty sure yum vs apt is a non-issue other than re-training the fingers. I don't currently play with apache much, but again it's just a re-train thing. Do you use things like 'service httpd restart'? Is that available in Ubuntu?
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ItJustWorks has been better and better on Fedora, my new laser printer install was a breeze (something I've not seen on Linux EVER) and I regularly put stuff on both my Blackberry and my Kindle without problem. The only thing that requires fiddling with is my Nvidia graphics card, and that's one time at install.
Fedora is on 6mo releases now too. But I've seen that lots of times the things I get out of the fedora repos are pretty old, like I get ruby 1.8.6 unless I install it by hand and I've been loathe to do that if I don't absolutely have to.
I'm pretty sure yum vs apt is a non-issue other than re-training the fingers.
I don't currently play with apache much, but again it's just a re-train thing. Do you use things like 'service httpd restart'? Is that available in Ubuntu?