Red Hat vs. Fedora

[Chris Kurtz]

Totally agree with Eric here.

If you want to learn Redhat (now commonly called "RedHat Enterprise
Linux" or RHEL) do CentOS.

We use it here at the office (we abandoned Fedora because its too
bleeding edge) and haven't looked back.

CentOS: All the convenience of RHEL and none of the pain.

...Chris

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 10:52 -0700, 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).
>