Red Hat vs. Fedora

Question

I am confused between the 2 Linux Distros, (i) Red-Hat and (ii) Fedora . I had a belief that Red-Hat has been reduxed to make Fedora. However seems that is not the scenario.

Further, when I tried to download Red-Hat, it again took me to the Fedora website. Can someone please explain what are these 2 distros ?

Answer 1

If you are wanting to try Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) check out CentOS. It's exactly the same as RHEL but with copyrighted RedHat logos removed.

Basically it boils down to:

• RHEL = CentOS = Oracle Unbreakable Linux - Server OS, with stable packages and 'certified' to run certain proprietary enterprise software. Has ancient version of most packages (by Linux standards)
• Fedora - Has all the spiffy new stuff. Good as desktop or development server. Has all the cool new toys. If you buy Oracle softare/support contract and then call them about using their database on Fedora they will laugh an evil laugh and tell you its NOT Supported!

Answer 2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is an enterprise-class Linux distro whose goal is long-term API/ABI stability. Fedora Linux (Fedora) is a developer-class Linux distro whose goal is to test and showcase new technologies. Every few years a new version of RHEL comes out, containing stabilized forms of the technologies previously used in Fedora.

Answer 3

Take a look at this http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/whichlinux/ it might help.