Fedora or Ubuntu? That is a question that Linux users are asking with increasing frequency.

With Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 having made it out yesterday, we couldn’t resist but to run some new benchmarks of the Lucid Lynx after our original tests last month found Ubuntu 10.04 was off to a poor performance start.

Ever since the Ubuntu One cloud service played an important role in Ubuntu 10.04, a new prototype of a KDE client has become available. A port to Fedora is also in the works.

Many will love it since it comes with a – I almost wanted to say GUI – an web-based interface which runs on your machine, and it can download the dependencies for the packages you want to install, for the following Linux distributions: Mandriva, openSUSE, Fedora (and obviously, Ubuntu and Debian).

Next step is install Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server in HVM DomU with ext4fs image via virt-install. Ubuntu Karmic PV DomU gets loaded via pygrub profile due to Xen Hypervisor has been built on F12 along with e2fsprogs-devel package,what allows to handle PV DomUs images (F12,Ubuntu 9.10) having ext4fs on boot partition.

I’m interested in whether we can use the contents of these live CDs to mass-install operating systems using libguestfs. If you imagine that you go through an “all defaults” install of say Fedora or Ubuntu to a new virtual machine, then when you end up with is an identical disk image containing 1-2 GB of [...]

Although they are both linux, they are fundamentally different because they are based on different distributions. Ubuntu was derived from Debian while Fedora is an offshoot of Red Hat.

Another week, another round of tinkering and messing around with Linux doodads. The Ubuntu Koala text installer has a years-old bug, and Fedora 11 LiveCD has a showstopping installer bug. Never a dull moment in computer-land!

I really hated all the 2.x series until this 2.2 RC1. It’s kind of slow, but it finally looks like a real music player and reminds me why I liked Amarok so much.

Each Linux distribution has a unique flavour and identity. Ubuntu, with its penchant for brown, ‘Linux for human beings’ motto and willingness to compromise on non-open-source drivers and software, currently leads in the popularity stakes. But there’s more to Linux than Jaunty Jackalope.

After powering the PC down, I noticed it could not find a a working Linux image to boot off of. I had trouble restoring Ubuntu Linux 9.04 so I loaded a copy of Fedora which is the open source version of Red Hat Linux.

Personally I am going to put Ubuntu back on as I really love software from PPAs, and I love using apt just out of habit. But hope that helps someone who wonders what the differences are or what they are missing.

I wanted to try out the Fedora LiveCD on my netbook, however I really only use Ubuntu and the utility on Ubuntu to create a USB boot disk only supports converting an Ubuntu ISO.

I used Ubuntu exclusively for about 3 years, before that I tried out Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuSE and a couple of others. I liked Ubuntu and made a lot of people switched to it, too. But here I am, an Ubuntu enthusiast, using Fedora 11 now. And the reason is again simple: freedom.

Fedora 11 was released earlier this week so we have set out to see how its desktop performance compares to that of Ubuntu 9.04, which was released back in April.

In the previous article in this series I looked at how init (the system we’ve all been using for years to start up our services) works, and how upstart, the new replacement for init, works instead. This article looks at upstart and its scripts in more detail.

Yes, there is more to Linux than Ubuntu. This guide will shed more light on some of the more common distributions in use today and will cover the distinct advantages or disadvantages of each.

I’m going to gather some well known info about these five popular Linux distribution to give you small preview of Linux operating systems. This is not a top five, rather five distributions I know about. This article should give you an overview on what to choose.

init is the program which is used on most Linuxes to generate all other processes on bootup. The BSD style (which runs from the /etc/rc script) is slightly different from the SysV style: SySV is probably the one you’re familiar with, as it’s used by Debian, SuSE, and until recently, Redhat.

GeunSik Lim, a Samsung software developer specialising in embedded Linux system design, has compared the netbook boot times for several Linux-based operating systems to see which was fastest.

With the recent news of beta releases from Fedora and Ubuntu, I decided to see how far the graphics support has come. So, I downloaded live ISO images of Fedora 11 Beta and Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Beta and created bootable USB images with FUSBi.

Being the Linux benchmarking fanatics that we are, we set out to run a few performance tests comparing the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta to the latest Rawhide packages that will make up today’s Fedora 11 Beta release.

Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips.

When you’re talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical’s Ubuntu, Novell’s openSUSE and Red Hat’s Fedora. Each of these “big three” has recently released a new version of its distribution, which means it’s time to check them out and decide which is No 1. Or, more properly, which is No. 1 for what [...]

After several weeks of trying I finally had to give in to my sweaty and now pruney hands. Last night I grabbed the Fedora 10 installer, burned an ISO and re-booted.