The main differences aren't cosmetic, but rather free accessibility of
updates and distributions, as well as attitude aka "philosophy."
Advantages of Ubuntu include frequent OS updates, debian-based package
management system (which admittedly is a matter of taste, but it is
one of the original package management systems), an active user-based
support community, extremely good internationalization support, and a
major financial commitment to keeping everything free and open: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/foundation
from the Canonical corporation, headed by Mark Shuttleworth, a
South African anti-racist entrepreneur who manages to defy the
cynics: http://rixstep.com/2/1/20060712,00.shtml
Any software that runs on RH/Fedora will run on Ubuntu and vice versa,
so that should not be an issue.
I'm running Xubuntu by the way (xfce4), but I also have the options of
logging into KDE or gnome (Kubuntu and vanila Ubuntu) as well as other
window managers. For me, installing vanilla ubuntu first and then
xfce4 worked fine.
I made the transition by installing on a new partition (new disk) and
booting into it, back when Breezy was introduced. I never looked back.
I've put some more propaganda here:
http://sage.ucsc.edu/xtal/wiki/index.php/Scientific_Computing_on_Ubuntu
Bill
On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Andreas Förster wrote:
> Re: Switching from Fedora to Ubuntu.
>
> Don't. Stick with Fedora if it works for you. If you're tempted by
> Ubuntu because of the coolness, the bling, the color, the limited
> customizability or the lack of root, a Mac will get you all of this
> much more abundantly.
>
> If you're used to Redhat/Fedora, stick with it. Everything
> crystallography related works on it. I tried to set an ancient Vaio
> up with xUbuntu and went back to Redhat 9 after too much
> frustration. Things are not where they're supposed to be and don't
> work as they should. This is from a Redhat perspective, obviously,
> which I've been using since 5.2.
>
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> Edward Snell wrote:
>> That would have saved me a lot of time and frustration! Now if
>> only I can remember this for the next time J I have a 64bit
>> Fedora 9 system running on an Lenovo Thinkstation D10 – you can buy
>> this without the operating system. I used the 64bit option as I’m
>> processing very high resolution X-ray data and needed to use more
>> memory. I was able to get a 16 GB system for a reasonable cost.
>> If you are a tinkerer and want a few days of ‘fun’ this is a way to
>> go. If not, commercially available Linux systems are available but
>> I found few with a large memory capacity. Coot and CCP4 were a
>> pain to compile in 64 bit mode (not the developers problem, just
>> mine for trying to get them to work in 64 bit). I had to play with
>> some header definitions, lop h’s off etc, add using namespace std
>> and, install a lot of libraries but they now work well. Coot reads
>> all the svg files and displays all the pretty icons. I like the PC
>> Linux route mainly because the hardware is less expensive and
>> easier to swap out components. I am used to Fedora and manage my
>> own system so for the moment I plan to stick with that but it
>> sounds like Ubuntu looks like an interesting way to go. Has anyone
>> had any experiences in transitioning from Fedora to Ubuntu? Is it
>> something to think about, a Thanksgiving project mainly?
>> Cheers,
>> Eddie
>> Edward Snell Ph.D.
>> Assistant Prof. Department of Structural Biology, SUNY Buffalo,
>> Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
>> 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1102
>> Phone: (716) 898 8631 Fax: (716) 898 8660
>> Email: [log in to unmask] Telepathy: 42.2 GHz
>> Heisenberg was probably here!
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
>> Behalf Of *Michel Fodje
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:28 AM
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform
>> recommendations?
>> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 09:40 -0500, James M. Vergis wrote:
>> 2) Graphics Cards:
>> I like the Nvidia cards since they provide linux drivers. ATI also
>> does
>> now. I would say the only thing I don't like about them is when
>> you do a
>> kernel update you have to remake the driver.
>> I would just add that for those using Fedora, you can avoid having
>> to remake the driver by using the RPMFusion repositories to install
>> the Nvidia drivers. This way updating the kernel automatically
>> installs the corresponding Nvidia kernel module. The same applies
>> to AMD/ATI drivers.
>
> --
> Andreas Förster, Research Associate
> Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
> Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
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