Ubuntu vs Fedora
Ubuntu 2 1.10 vs Fedora 35
Mayank Sharma wonders if there’s more that separates the two leading Gnome-based distros than their different packaging formats.
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Ubuntu 21.10 CPU: 2GHz Memory: 2GB HDD: 25GB Build: x86-64, arm64, armhf, ppc64le, s390x
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Fedora 35 CPU: 2GHz Memory: 2GB HDD: 20GB Build: amd64 and aarch64
Truth be told, Ubuntu and Fedora, arguably the two leading distros, have very little in common. We apply the fact that both use the Gnome desktop to pit the projects against each other, which only helps accentuate the differences between the two projects and their wares.
In terms of similarities, besides their headline Gnomebased editions, both distros have spins based on various popular desktop environments. Furthermore, both projects support multiple architectures and produce a lot more editions than the ones for the desktop users.
Even though they go about it differently – and we’ve just spent the last eight pages going over their individual efforts – you can use both Fedora and Ubuntu on all kinds of servers, containers, IoT and public clouds.
In terms of releases, while Ubuntu does put out Long Term Releases every two years, Fedora treats all its releases the same. Ubuntu 21.10 is a standard short-term release that will be supported for nine month, while Fedora 35, like all Fedora releases, will continue to receive updates for about 13 months.