![]() OpenSUSE is freely available, but also sold as a retail boxed product with limited commercial support from SUSE, while Fedora is a community project with no retail business. Both of these dependency resolvers use a SAT-solver for quick dependency resolutions. ![]() OpenSUSE uses the zypper dependency resolver instead of dnf. OpenSUSE has adopted the Fedora trademark license agreement with a few minor differences, and openSUSE has mostly adopted the Fedora Packaging Guidelines as well. ![]() Tumbleweed is another openSUSE version, based on the rolling release cycle where the packages are updated more often. OpenSUSE also has a time-based release model that comes with their Leap version however, Fedora releases a new major release every six months while openSUSE has a new major release every nine months. Like Fedora, openSUSE uses RPM as a package manager. Because of similarities in packaging software, there are many similarities between openSUSE and Fedora. OpenSUSE was founded by SUSE, LLC as a predecessor of Red Hat Linux. Fedora's default desktop environment is GNOME, but there are also Fedora spins of other desktop environments, such as KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and MATE. Ubuntu's default desktop environment is GNOME (with minor alterations), but Ubuntu can also be used with desktop environments such as Unity, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and MATE. Ubuntu also uses the deb format, dpkg package manager, and apt-get dependency resolver. Ubuntu has more relaxed policies involving proprietary or patent-encumbered software and selectively tolerates it to some extent. Ubuntu is based off of Debian, but Fedora is not a derivative of another Linux distribution and has a more direct relationship with many upstream projects by using newer versions of their software. In that sense Fedora is more akin to Ubuntu flavours which are the community based projects with special goals (usually customizing the Desktop Environments) the bigger difference in that comparison is that Fedora works as one unified project even with regard to spins while Ubuntu flavours usually act as a separate projects. Ubuntu is commercially supported by Canonical while Fedora is a community project sponsored by Red Hat. Ubuntu has a server and cloud edition like Fedora does. Ubuntu also has its own StackExchange website called Ask Ubuntu, which is similar to Fedora's Ask Fedora Discourse-based website. Just as Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, a UK-based software company that profits mostly on charging for Ubuntu support. Ubuntu is a popular Debian derivative and consequently many of the similarities and differences between Debian and Fedora apply to Ubuntu as well.įedora and Ubuntu both use many of the same command line tools, like nearly any Linux distribution, including cp, mv, rm, sudo, wget, etc. Unlike Fedora, Debian does not follow a time-based release model. Fedora has around 15,000 software packages, although it should be taken into account that Fedora does not include a non-free or contrib repository. ![]() Debian has a larger repository with over 20,000 software packages. ![]() Fedora uses the RPM format, the RPM package manager, and dnf dependency resolver.ĭebian has free, non-free and contrib repositories, while Fedora has a single global repository that contains only free software applications. A good judgement of whether a particular software project is truly free and open source software can be made on the basis of whether it is available via the Debian and Fedora repositories.īoth projects have a large body of collective knowledge from the community in the form of community governance, policies, and packaging guidelines.ĭebian uses the deb format, dpkg package manager, and apt-get dependency resolver. Like Fedora, Debian is very focused on free and open source software. Debian is a community project and a popular Linux distribution. ![]()
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