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@shubes.net
> <mailto:ejs@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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