On 11/2/06, Gabriel Maluréanu <gmalureanu@agorasoft.com> wrote:

Question: since I intend, when the company will be in "steady-state", to work on a free Linux distro, while supporting it, would you please let me know what would be the connection points, from the practical standpoint, between RHEL and Fedora, compared to other free distros? I'd like to use on some servers the RH supported licenses, and on others a free distro, the "closest" possible to RH. Would be Fedora this one (and why)?

 Hi Gabriel,

The closest possible distribution to RHEL will be CentOS (http://centos.org/ ), or a similar distribution that tries to maintain API and ABI compatibility with the corresponding RHEL release. Fedora is a fast-moving distribution; RHEL releases adopt features first implemented in Fedora, but at any given time Fedora will have newer software than RHEL.

My 2 cents would be to use RHEL and CentOS on your production servers, and use a couple of Fedora systems to keep abreast with what will eventually trickle back into the next RHEL release.

Best regards,

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