Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

[James McKenzie]

On 6/5/11 8:11 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 07:42 PM, Alex wrote:
>> I recall reading that CentOS is having trouble keeping up with the
>> latest RHEL. Is this currently a problem? Any input on whether future
>> updates will be delayed as well?
> CentOS 5.6 was released several months after RHEL 5.6, and CentOS 6
> still hasn't been released.  (RHEL 6.1 was just recently released.)
>
> As they say in the investment business, "past performance is no
> guarantee of future results."  I don't think anyone can really say
> with confidence what the future holds for any of the distributions
> that are derived from RHEL sources.
>
> (For the sake of full disclosure, I do work for Red Hat.  Hopefully,
> everything I've written above is relatively uncontroversial.)
>
The problem with CentOS updating to RHEL 6.x releases is the amount of 
imbedded RH information that they have to remove, by law.  Once that is 
complete, there should be a CentOS 6.x release.  I will not blame RedHat 
for this, the codebase is different and more files means more stuff to 
remove/replace.

BTW, I do work with RHEL 5.5/5.6 at my workplace and we are looking to 
move to 6.x as soon as it is approved.

James McKenzie