Fedora vs RedHat

[kevin kempter]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> kevin kempter wrote:
>> Hi All;
>> What's the real differences between Fedora and say RHEL Desktop ?
>> Specifically I'm considering buying one of the following for my new  
>> dual core laptop w 12G of memory:
>> Workstation with Standard Subscription
>> or
>> Workstation and Multi-OS with Basic Subscription
>
> Fedora is the "beta test, bleeding edge" test version.  If it works
> well and is stable in Fedora, it eventually becomes RHEL.  For  
> example,
> RHEL5.x is based on Fedora 6.  New Fedora versions come out just about
> every 6 months or so.
>
> I suspect that RHEL6.x will be based on Fedora 10 or 11, once all the
> KDE/Gnome/kernel things calm down and stabilize.
>
> If you want stability, then go with RHEL or CentOS (built from RHEL
> sources, but rebadged).  If you can stand to lose blood and get
> frustrated at times, then you can go with Fedora.  Just remember that
> there are no guarantees that your stuff will work in Fedora...it's a
> test case.

Sounds Like RH workstation is for me. A few more questions.

1) What's the upgrade path between RH versions (i.e. can I 'Upgrade'  
from RH5 to RH6 or do I need to do a fresh install) ?
2) Can I add server components to a RH workstation install without  
restriction ?



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