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Fedora vs Raspbian: What are the differences?

Fedora: Operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project. Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system; Raspbian: A free operating system based on Debian. It is optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. It provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.

Fedora and Raspbian belong to "Operating Systems" category of the tech stack.

Real Softservice, Privia, and Power Challenge AB are some of the popular companies that use Fedora, whereas Raspbian is used by 3DRacers, Robotical Ltd, and IPF. Fedora has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 127 developers stacks; compared to Raspbian, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Pros of Fedora

Pros of Raspbian

20
Great for developers
9
Great integration with system tools
9
Represents the future of rhel/centos
8
Good release schedule
6
Reliable
5
Fast
5
Docker integration
3
Latest packages
3
Updated with Bleeding-edge software
3
Great for ops teams
3
Has SeLinux
2
Awesome community
2
Complies with International Standard
2
Python distribution

7
Runs well on rpi
2
Easy to use with little experience

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Cons of Fedora

Cons of Raspbian

1
Bugs get fixed slowly from kernel side
1
Systemd
1
Much less support from Wiki
1
Boring
1
Less packages in official repository
1
A bit complicated
0
Slightly difficult to install for beginners

3
Desktop enviroment is unstable

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What is Fedora?

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

What is Raspbian?

It is optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. It provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.

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Android Software Engineer

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What are some alternatives to Fedora and Raspbian?

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

openSUSE

The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

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