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Re: OT: Just a simple query



Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du, 30 oct 11, 00:56:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Btw. instead of Red Hat I tested Fedora on a virtual machine, set up on
Suse. Fedora might be a very good choice for beginners and experienced
users too. Is there still a Red Hat distro? Regarding to the German Wiki
Red Hat became Fedora.
No, Fedora is a sort of testing bed for Red Hat.


Red Hat Linux = Red Hat's original commercial product
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) = Red Hat's current commercial product
Fedora = Community distribution, based on Red Hat Linux, Sponsored by Red Hat - upstream for for RHEL (sort of the way OpenSolaris was supposed to be upstream for Solaris)
- i.e., RHEL is a derivative of Fedora
CentOS = Community distribution based on RHEL source code = RHEL w/o proprietary components



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