Looking at Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10

“Watching Ubuntu and Fedora development is something like
watching episodes of Iron Chef: Given roughly the same ingredients
and the same amount of time, the two projects produce vastly
different dishes. The Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10 release cycle is
particularly pronounced in this regard, with Ubuntu’s focus largely
on refining improvements from 10.04 and Fedora introducing major
changes to the infrastructure.

“The two distributions follow largely the same development
cycle, six months between releases with new major releases each
Spring and Fall. Ubuntu’s next release is scheduled for October
10th, while Fedora 14 was scheduled for October 26th, but slipped
by a week and is now scheduled for November 2nd. Even though the
two distributions ship roughly the same software, the difference in
features that have been emphasized by each is significant in the
upcoming releases. It almost goes without saying that F14 and
Ubuntu 10.10 include the normal array of package updates for the
usual suspects like Firefox, the Linux kernel, etc.

“Fedora’s feature list largely consists of infrastructure
improvements and developer-oriented updates. For example, some of
the features scoped for F14 include providing a GNUstep development
environment, updating to Perl 5.12, updating to Python 2.7, and
adding Rakudo Star — the first production release of the Perl
6 implementation for the Parrot virtual machine.”

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