Difference between Ubuntu and Fedora

Posted on June 13, 2008
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This is a summary of difference between Ubuntu and Fedora :

for windows you got what you got!

there are some themes, and even a few Explorer.exe replacements, but they arent very good.

ubuntu is one distrobution of linux, fedora is another, they are both fairly popular versions, so there are plenty of programs available for both

ubuntu must use the synaptic installer search, to install programs.

fedora you use packages you download from websites/etc

both are somewhat compatible with each other.

to install a generic program, you need to compile it first

make
make install

Creamyc gives a good rundown. To clarify a bit, Ubuntu uses a package management system that uses deb files. Red Hat / Fedora uses a system that uses RPM files.

I personally find deb much less problematic than RPM files, but I haven’t used red hat (or mandrake which also uses rpm) for several years now so things might have improved.

The versions of the different components may differ slightly between red hat and ubuntu. The programs available, in general, are similar, although not necessarily identical.

I read somewhere that KDE has been ported to windoze, but I couldn’t get the link to work, so I don’t know anything more.


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Direct Rendering: No

Posted on May 24, 2008
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If  you successfully install nvidia driver on fedora using the following command:
yum install kmod-nvidia glx-utils
But when enter  order:
glxinfo | grep direct
prompt the following information:
[garro@localhost ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
Maybe you can repair it as follows:
Check and ensure /etc/X11/xorg.conf  have the following two parameters:
Section “ServerLayout”
Option “aiglx” “true”
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection

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[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control ‘PCM’,0

Posted on May 24, 2008
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 I’m running mplayer on a Fedora9 install with the latest updates.Install and compile mplayer in

character mode,then input Gmplayer and mplayer can play audio and video ,but Right-Click and

choose to use the mplayer,It’s silent and prompt error msgs:

[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control ‘PCM’,0

Then I google the problem and find that it can be repaired using the following order:

mplayer -ao oss

 OR

mplayer -ao arts


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