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    is there a difference between fedora and redhat

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by REBEL07, Oct 25, 2008.

  1. REBEL07

    REBEL07 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi
    im wondering if there a difference between fedora and redhatif i want to learn
    through fedora and make fedora as a server not redhat like learning RHCE??

    OR IT MUST BE REDHAT DIST.
     
    REBEL07, Oct 25, 2008
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  2. zephyrus17

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    You can make almost any distro a server, I think. But I always thought RedHat was more business orientated. Fedora more for home use.
     
    zephyrus17, Oct 25, 2008
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  4. REBEL07

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    thank you

    do you mean that i can learn RHCE by using centos ??

    and thank you for the post
     
    REBEL07, Oct 25, 2008
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  5. racerdg

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    CentOS repackages the RedHat source code. It is not RedHat, but it is probably the closest thing you will find.
     
    racerdg, Oct 25, 2008
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    So it appears Fedora is quite similar to RedHat. I'm 99% sure that you have to actually buy RedHat these days since it's only released for the enterprise, so you probably don't want to actually go RedHat. Can't say much on Fedora vs. CentOS as I know even less about CentOS than Fedora.
     
    Apollo13, Oct 26, 2008
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    Fedora is redhat, but fedora is cutting edge, anything upto 3 releases in front of Redhat which is the enterprise edition and stabilised before release.
    Either way, its still redhat if you buy the EL or get Fedora...
    Centos uses redhat as its base and distributes it with there own flavour of things, still an enterprise distro but a free one and a community supported one...
    If your installing or looking at using a server, consider this, any distro, stripped down for a server contains very little that will make it different to any other distro. If its .deb based or .rpm then yes they are different, but either one can use what the other uses, so once you strip all the goodies out of the picture, its just plain linux...
     
    wraithe, Oct 26, 2008
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  8. Thomas

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    Fedora is more up-to-date, at the cost of stability.
    Red Hat is like Iron Man, you can't break him..easily :D
     
    Thomas, Oct 26, 2008
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    Fedora is battering ram for Red Hat :D.
     
    wojwoda, Oct 26, 2008
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    True, but many don't offer security updates, which means you have to upgrade package versions to avoid exploits. That's going to cause problems when functionality and configs change.
     
    Ethyriel, Oct 26, 2008
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    Thank you all for sharing your knowledge
     
    REBEL07, Oct 26, 2008
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  12. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Fedora is a spin-off project off Red Hat Linux, which is basically a corporate solution for Linux servers that includes tightened security and more specific apps. Training is also offered specifically for the Red Hat distro.
     
    Bog, Oct 27, 2008
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    Red Hat is the stable version for businesses. Fedora is the unstable, bleeding edge version that is buggy and breaks easily.
     
    pacmandelight, Oct 28, 2008
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  14. Bog

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    Not necessarily so. Many businesses use Fedora Core to power their servers - by Linux standards, Fedora does have bleeding edge software. But even then it is pretty **** stable.
     
    Bog, Oct 29, 2008
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    After Red Hat 9 Fedora was born and Red Hat continued on as RHEL. Fedora is community supported, while RHEL is supported by Red Hat. RHEL is pretty much rock solid, I ran a server on it and it had over a year of uptime before I no longer rented it. If you want to learn I'd use CentOS.
     
    atbnet, Oct 29, 2008
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