Re: RHEL vs. Fedora for Red Hat Certification Prep

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 08:35 -0500, Koree A. Smith wrote:
> CentOS is probably a closer match to RHEL than Fedora.  Although, I
> have not used Fedora in quite a while, so I could be wrong.  You do
> not have to have an RHN account to use RHEL, but you do have to have
> one to update it.  CentOS provides updates for free, of course.  There
> are subtle differences, but for the most part, they are the same.
> CentOS has removed trademarked references to the RedHat name, such as
> logos, etc.

Koree is right. RHEL5 is a polished, commercial version of everything
first released and tested as Fedora 7. CentOS 5.2 is RHEL5 recompiled
without the Red Hat copyrighted and trademarked stuff, none of which is
really functional. It's superior to RHEL5 in that there are no
artificial packaging barriers -- you can install everything.

To explain the significance, I'm running RHEL5 Server. The packaging
geniuses at Red Hat decided that OpenOffice and Evolution aren't needed
on servers, so they're supplied only with RHEL5 Workstation. I've set up
CentOS as an additional repository to RHN, and it allows me to install
and support OO and Evo pretty much as though I'd also purchased a
license for RHEL5 Workstation (which, as its name implies, lacks many
services).

--Doc


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