Suggestions:  EXPECT to BUILD and configure and investigation RH  (Fedora "core") systems a few times to learn well!  Come to installfests and PLUG presentations; make some personal friends amoung the exceptional expertise in the group; ask questions including all documentation, logs and steps from the list as you go along.

You would best start with a RH release.  Redhat provides exceptionally easy to understand documentation to follow.

Fedora is the development version that you can go to later.   Fedora 10 is currently undergoing some difficulties after going (prematurely) to KDE4.  Most are forced to build it up under Gnome instead.  Many patches are released every day; as a development version, Fedora 10 would be something you can learn after being accomplished with your stable Redhat.

You can get a free 30 day evaluation to download RedHat.  If you want patches and updates (which are provided from Fedora/CentOs free) for your RH systems, you will need to get a paid Redhat account/license [about $80.00 a year].  If you use any system in a reliant way (finances, school, programming) you want to keep it patched/updated.   Even Mozilla needs regular updates.  SSL and various daemons that rely on certs and encryption are currently under industry wide update; technology marches on - your use of Linux must also.  [Be sure to keep your important data saved to a USB pendrive and/or external NAS (firewire, ethernet/802.11, USB)].

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> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:44:26 -0700
> From: nathan@paysonlinux.org
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Red Hat vs. Fedora
>
>
> All,
>
> Possibly a dumb question, so I apologize ahead of time!
>
> I Know admittedly little about Red Hat or Fedora.
> If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
> get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could
> learn how Red Hat does things? Is there enough difference that I would
> have a problem going back and forth between desktops with Fedora and
> servers with Red hat?
>
> Nathan
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