Red Hat vs. Fedora

[Thomas Cameron]

Eric Shubert wrote:
> 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).

<total bias>

Or instead, you could actually contribute to the folks who are actually 
building RHEL by buying a subscription.

It's pretty cheap - if you're a commercial buyer see:

https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/desktop/

for the desktop version.

If you are a developer (or even if you only play one on TV), you can get 
JBoss Developer Studio, which includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, for 
$99.00.  See:

https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/jboss_developer_studio.html

If you are a student or the parent of a student, you can get an academic 
subscription for $30 for desktop and $60 for server.  See:

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academic/individual/

If you are going to take advantage of Red Hat's work, it would be cool 
to pay them for that work.

</total bias>

-- 
Thomas Cameron