@SilverBear2006:
Excellent link, it couldn't make the relationship any clearer

Thanks

Mikie

Slackware 10.2 is my all time favorite. It is fast, It is simple, xorg.conf is all that stands between me and the xserver. It is the best distro for me. I have Fedora core x86_64, SuSE 10.2 x86_64, and Slamd64 loaded on a box I just put together. Slack suits me best. All the config tools in the other distros confuse me.

Im surprised Fedora did not do better.

bassed on what I heard Ubuntu is way to much like Windows for my taste. If I wanted windows I would just boot windows.

That's a valid argument from your point of view. However, there was a very large congregation of disgruntled windows users who were waiting for Linux to reach that point (not unlike myself).

Point & click, drag -n- drop GUI's are what made windows what it is today, despite all it's flaws. Ubuntu made it easy to switch.

At least it's still Linux.

Ubuntu would be good for Windows converts, but I willl stick to Fedora Core.

I've used Ubuntu since October 2005. I switched because I was sick of Windows (and had been looking for Linux to be easy enough to use for an average user).

All I can say is, the old adage is true....Linux is NOT Windows, and Ubuntu bears that out very well.

I don't know what you've heard, but if you haven't given Ubuntu a try, don't believe all you hear.

As for "if I wanted Windows, I'd just boot Windows", if you could get Windows without it being proprietary and without the malware and without the security problems inherant in Windows etc. etc. etc.....would you consider using it?

Ubuntu is not like that, but if it were, would you use it?

How is Ubuntu too like Windows? It isn't even the most Windows-like distro.
Ubuntu uses the Gnome Desktop Environment which means it doesn't even resemble Windows visually. If you want to use a GUI you can do that in just about any distro with the appropriate DE. You might as well say that Slackware or Gentoo is like Windows if you're using KDE with the "Windows" settings option.

Calm down, gentlemen.

He says he's never even tried Ubuntu. So he's just repeating something he thinks somebody else thinks. . .
That's not really what you could call "an opinion." So don't bother to try to change his --he's just feeling grumpy that Fedora did not "do better" in the poll. Not that it's a statistically valid poll, or anything. It's just one of those fun thread-starters.

I do have to say I liked mdsmedia's comment:
There are enough good conversations on the forum to get into without feeding the trolls, or the average guy who just happens to be in a trollish mood.

BTW, Fedora says there have been 2 million installs of Fed Core 6:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl.../03/06/1437245

I'll second the motion about Ubuntu being nothing like windows. I have used 15 different distros including Fedora and Ubuntu is no more or less advanced or indepth than Fedora. And, if you don't like it, you can always install the packages that Fedora has that Ubuntu doesn't. (I use Kubuntu because I liked the KDE from when I used Fedora and installed the Kubuntu desktop on my Ubuntu.)

Sorry for causing an Argument. I did not know people would take my remark that far.

It's funny, but I can't even see the resemblance of KDE to Windows, unless you go to the trouble of making it look like Windows. I will admit that I prefer Gnome to KDE, but under the hood it's still Linux, and that is not Windows. And the menus etc, the apps, the configurability, in KDE they are there, in Windows they are not.

I can't see how ANY Linux distro is like Windows. I must say I haven't used Lin/Freespire or even Mepis or PCLOS or Xandros. I've balked at even Crossover Office.

I'm sorry it seemed to be an argument too. I guess I took a little offence that without even having tried it you'd formed the opinion that my favorite distro was too much like Windows. It comes more from my dislike of Windows than what you said, I think.

I used RedHat (just a little bit) about 5 years ago, and about 7 years ago, but I've never seen or tried Fedora. My impression has always been that it's about the same level in the Linux tree as Ubuntu, but one is RedHat and the other is Debian based. Fedora is both a development base, and a "user-friendly" desktop branch, of RedHat. Ubuntu is a "user-friendly" desktop branch (if you like, no offence to Debian enthusiasts) of Debian and uses the more cutting edge release of Debian as its base, as does Fedora of RedHat...as I understand it.

So they're pretty much cousins.

Originally posted by mdsmedia:
Well exactly! There is a setting in the control centre to make it Windows-like in a user sense, but you'd still have to work on the overall appearance and why the heck would you?

I set Knoppix to that once.

Originally posted by Chargh:
You don't sound like you perpetuated the experience . Hardly surprising, all that double clicking etc.

Never been a Linux user but I am waiting on a copy of Mandriva 2007.