[Fwd: Can I bother you with another Linux question?]

[John Abreau]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Note that Red Hat 9 is a bit obsolete, and has been replaced by Fedora 
> releases.
> 

Before the Fedora split, Redhat had split their distribution into a 
"consumer" branch and an "enterprise" branch. Then they essentially spun 
off the consumer branch and handed it off to the community. The Fedora 
project was already doing something similar, so Redhat gave it to them.

As for the Enterprise branch, Redhat makes the source RPMs available for 
download, and the CentOS project recompiles them to produce downloadable 
iso images. The only thing missing from CentOS is the support contract.
If you *really* need an official corporate support contract, then you 
should be buying the enterprise edition.

So there's really two good choices here: Fedora, if you want to run the 
latest bleeding-edge code; and CentOS, if you want to run code that's 
been burned-in and tested for stability. Personally, I tend to favor 
Fedora for workstations and CentOS for servers.

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