Re: RHEL vs. Fedora for Red Hat Certification Prep

[Nathan Nutter <iam@nnutter.com>]

Thanks Koree, CentOS is in fact what I was looking for.

As a side note I think the fact that Red Hat is profitable and contributes so much to OSS while having a product competitor in CentOS (but not a service competitor in CentOS) is very inspiring.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Koree A. Smith <koree@ameth.org> 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

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Nathan Nutter <iam@nnutter.com> wrote:

Hi SILUG,

I'm not really sure what certification path I'll take (Red Hat, LPI, CompTIA, Ubuntu) but I was wondering about learning RHEL, probably starting with the technician test. It seems like you have to have a Red Hat Network account in order to use RHEL. Is Fedora similar enough that I could use that instead?

Nathan

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