Question for our users

[Seann Clark]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Fedora is a distribution of Linux that is used by Red Hat as a testing 
>> ground to prove and test software for its flagship Red Hat Enterprise 
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> Actually Fedora Project is a distribution of Linux by the Fedora Project,
> and given its focus on things like NetworkManager and end user desktop
> its hardly just a testing ground for enterprise software. In fact much of
> Fedora is stuff nobody would ship in an enterprise distribution...
>
>   
>> Linux. Red Hat was, at one point, a free, open source distribution until 
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> It still is.
>
>   
>> the model was changed and now Red Hat is a purchased, enterprise-level 
>> distribution of Linux
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> The code is free, and you can get that code from people like Centos all
> nicely packaged up and ready to go. RHEL is basically service, support,
> certification, compatibility testing and training built around free
> software.
>   
Only thing is the branding. CentOS, from what I remember, got hammered 
for a little bit because there were RH logos and stuff still in the Cent 
branch a little bit after RH went commercial. It has been a while though 
so I could be in error on that. Just  my random 2cents.


~Seann
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