Project Update

[Kurt Granroth]

A few details:

Fedora = Community based "bleeding-edge" distro
begets
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) = Proprietary long-term distro
shadowed by
CentOS = Community version of RHEL long-term distro

OpenSUSE = Community based "bleeding-edge" distro
begets
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) = Proprietary long-term distro
shadowed by
Nothing => there is no community version of SLES

I guess there is also:

Ubuntu = Community based "bleeding-edge" distro
begets
Ubuntu Long Term Suport (LTS) = Community long-term distro

I'm not aware of a proprietary "enterprise" version of Ubuntu in the 
same vein as RHEL and SLES.  I know that LTS is geared to compete with 
them but it really "feels" more like CentOS.  Maybe when Canonical 
matures a bit more?

On 1/31/10 10:21 PM, Steve Phariss wrote:
>    I know that Fedora and redhat are related and how, not so sure on the
> SuSE genealogy. It is my understanding that OpenSuse is the
> "development" version of SuSE in the same way that Fedora is the
> "development" version of Redhat.  My point being (as has been discussed
> in the last few messages) that since this is to be a production
> environment, the bleeding edge version is not the best choice.
>
> Steve Phariss
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net
> <mailto:ejs at shubes.net>> wrote:
>
>     Steve Phariss wrote:
>      > The downside to "newer bits" is that they may not be as tested.
>      > Arguably, a CentOS/RHEL install will have more long term stability.
>      > Newer is not always better when it comes to getting down to business.
>      > OpenSuSE is the equivalent to using Fedora correct?
>
>     No, Fedora is related to RedHat. Fedora is community driven and bleeding
>     edge, from which RedHat is derived. CentOS is a rebranded (from sources)
>       RedHat. People will commonly refer to CentOS systems as being RHEL
>     (which they are for the most part).
>
>     OpenSuSE uses rpms, and it too has an Enterprise version, but that's
>     about all that it has in common with Fedora/RedHat/CentOS.
>
>      > a test/dev
>      > distribution for the main distro...
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Steve
>      >
>
>     --
>     -Eric 'shubes'
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