college student, hardcore gamer, web developer, programmer, mac, linux user
It’s sorta funny: my attempt at configuring a web server with Ubuntu resulted in switching to Fedora as my desktop distribution of choice. I had never previously known the Red Hat side of the spectrum other than pre-configured web servers that I’ve been using for the past few years. Building my own web server from scratch, I encountered a lot of frustration and promptly switched to CentOS, a distribution that I’ve relied on for many years as a web server, but haven’t configured myself. Once I was in, I found a very streamlined and trouble-free environment. I quickly got a LAMP environment compiled with suPHP and Suhosin set up with no hitches. All that was left for me to do was configure everything to my needs.
Having used Ubuntu as a main operating system for several months, I liked the idea of a fast-moving and cutting-edge operating system for my own use. Unfortunately CentOS and Red Hat, to my understanding, are not very fast-moving, but I wanted the environment that these distributions offered. Luckily for me, Fedora does with Red Hat what I consider Ubuntu to do with Debian: a fast-moving, ever-evolving, cutting-edge desktop.
