Disappointed Ubuntu upgrade to 8.10 compared with Fedora 10

New features in Ubuntu 8.10:

• Linux kernel 2.6.27
• GNOME 2.24
• Encrypted private directory
• X.Org 7.4 (offering better support for keyboards, mice, and tablets)
• Network Manager 0.7 (improved network management)
• Dell’s DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support)
• PAM authentication
• BBC plugin for Totem (grab free shows from the BBC)
• Guest session support.

New features in Fedora 10:

• AMQP Infrastructure: A technology that makes it easy to build scalable, interoperable, high-performance enterprise application
• Appliance Tools: Tools and meta-data that make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, OEMS, etc) to create and deploy virtual appliances
• Artistic 1.0 License Removal: Remove all packages licensed under only the Artistic 1.0 license before Fedora 10
• Better Printing
• Better Remote Support
• Better Start-up
• Better Webcam Support
• Connection Sharing: Enable adhoc network sharing
• Echo Icon Theme
• Eclipse 3.4: Rebase Eclipse to version 3.4
• EFI
• Evdev Input Driver
• Faster Startup
• First Aid Kit: First Aid Kit is an automated recovery tool that brings together common recovery processes and applies them to a system
• Glitch Free Audio: Rewrite the PulseAudio sound server to use timer-based audio scheduling
• Gnome 2.24: Re-base Fedora to Gnome 2.24
• GStreamer RPM dependencies: dependencies Assist automated installation of GStreamer codecs provided by third-party repositories
• Kernel Modes Setting for Graphics: Move graphic mode initialization from the X server's DDX drivers to the kernel
• NetBeans IDE: Add the NetBeans IDE to Fedora
• Online Accounts Service: Provides applications with credentials for user's online accounts listed on online.gnome.org or stored in GConf
• Python NSS Bindings
• Remote Virtual Install
• RPM 4.6
• Save to Bugzilla: Auto create bugzilla entry with anaconda tracebacks
• Sbin Sanity: Add /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin to the PATH
• for normal users to simplify command-line administration tasks
• Security Audit: A new security audit system and intrusion detection system
• Sugar Desktop: Include the Sugar Desktop (used in OLPC) in Fedora
• Virtual Storage: Make storage provisioning over libvirt connections (local and remote) virtual machines as simple as possible.

Compared with these two major distro of linux, ubuntu is more like a service pack to me than a new release (from:http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2788) . While Fedora pushes it's milestone release, which will be the shipped to next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, to a new level, even though some features have existed in ubuntu or other distros, fedora got a huge improvement.