Red Hat vs. Fedora

[Eric Shubert]

Nathan England wrote:
> 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

Fedora is RH on the bleeding edge. What is the current Fedora will 
eventually become some flavor of RH.

OTOH, CentOS is RHEL simply rebranded, and entirely free. I'd jump into 
CentOS if you want to learn RH. CentOS is much more stable than Fedora 
(as is RHEL).

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'