Re: [Netnice-developer] RE: Fedora

[Matt D. <mat...@gm...>]

Nirval,
Nice meeting you!

To clarify your email:
Fedora is a Linux distribution.
Linux, simply is the kernel, the base operating system that Fedora, as 
well as hundreds of other Linux distributions are built around.
Linux distributions include the Linux kernel (www.kernel.org) and a 
bunch of software, called packages.  Packages and a Linux kernel make a 
linux distribution.  Different distributions, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, 
Slackware, etc etc all have the Linux kernel(that is what makes them a 
linux distribution) but they differ in the packages and initial setup 
that they apply.  Some distributions integrate their packages better 
than others.  Fedora does a nice job of this integration.  For example, 
in Fedora, a hyperlink in teh Thunderbird email client will spawn a 
corresponding Firefox web browser opening to the link, if it was 
clicked.  Other distributions do not include such nice intricies, and 
the end user would have to toy around to get some added flexability.

For development purposes, Fedora is a good basis for a group to develop 
towards.  Developing for one release of Fedora assures that all 
libraries (and there are a ton of em) are of the same version with all 
other Fedora libraries for that particular Fedora release.  This 
similarity among development libraries allows the developer to 
dynamically link code for that library and have it work with other 
Fedora machines.


To answer your question, yes Fedora is a good choice, but I prefer a 
more minimalistic environment for my home machine, with out all of the 
extra bells and whistles that Fedora comes with.  After all tehy both 
run linux, and if I want a bell or whistle Im sure it can be downloaded 
some where.

-Matt
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Nirvail wrote:
> Hello!
> My name is Nirvail. I want to install Linux OS for this project but 
> someone told me that  Fedora is a stable Linux and does almost same as 
> Linux. I want to know if I can install Fedora to work with this project.
>  
> Thanks