Differences between RHEL and Fedora 8?

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Thu Nov 15 12:41:59 UTC 2007


On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Thomas Cameron wrote:

> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
> Subject: Re: Differences between RHEL and Fedora 8?
> 
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 08:18 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>,
>>>     For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>>>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>>> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Differences between RHEL and Fedora 8?
>>>
>>> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>> So are you saying that the Fedora release is the testing ground for
>>>> RHEL, by approx 1 year ahead of the RHEL releases?
>>>
>>> Fedora is upstream for RHEL (ie) RHEL is a derivative distribution of
>>> Fedora and every third release of Fedora or so is the basis of the
>>> subsequent RHEL release too. The exact time period varies. Fedora
>>> releases are 6 months apart and RHEL releases are 12 to 18 months apart
>>> from each other.
>>>
>>>> So if I learn Fedora Linux administration, would that cover me for
>>>> passing RHCE exams?
>>>
>>> Not really, no. You probably want RHEL or a rebuild of it.
>>>
>>> Rahul
>>
>> Thankyou for that Rahul. Can I download RHEL and use that
>> on my own machine at home without having to pay for a
>> license?
>
> You have several options.  Either you can sign up for a 30-day
> evaluation of Red Hat Developer Connection (which includes RHEL and a
> bunch of other cool developer stuff) at
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/developer/products/basic.html
>
> You can contact your sales rep and ask him/her to set up a 30-day RHEL
> only eval.
>
> You can get a RHEL only eval at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/eval/
>
> If you are or your child is a student, you can get an academic
> subscription for all of $30 for desktop or $60 for server at
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academic/individual/ - see
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academicqualification/ for
> what it takes to qualify for a student subscription.

Thanks John. Will check those links out soon.

Regards

Keith


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