On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:01 +0100, Christoph Strobel wrote:
Hello Gabriel!
Question: since I intend, when the company will be in
"steady-state", to work on a free Linux distro, while
supporting it, would you please let me know what would be the
connection points, from the practical standpoint, between RHEL
and Fedora, compared to other free distros? I'd like to use on
some servers the RH supported licenses, and on others a free
distro, the "closest" possible to RH. Would be Fedora this one
(and why)?
Fedora is still widely known as the "Linux made by RedHat", this fact
in one hand and the option to "upgrade" to RHEL without big
differences in using and maintaining the system in the other hand is a
good equipment for talking to your customers.
This is something I'd be careful with. Fedora and RHEL are only similar
in the sense that they are both Red Hat-based distributions. But there
is *no* upgrade path from Fedora to RHEL. In other words, to upgrade
from Fedora to RHEL you have to do a clean reinstall. That's not to say
I wouldn't recommend Fedora (of course), but you don't want to imply
that there is an easy in-place upgrade from Fedora to RHEL.
Generally speaking, we also want to move away from fedora being the
"Linux made by Red Hat". Fedora is community based and many of the
important contributions come from non-Red Hat folks. That said, I
understand that the impression is out there. This is the elevator pitch:
"What is Fedora? Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and
guided by the contributors. These projects are developed by a large
community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in
free, open source software and standards."
-Sam
I've never used CentOS, so I can't say what the benefits of
using this
distribution are. But I made quite good experiences with using Fedora
for smaller customers, as server- and client-os. Smaller companies are
always happy not having to pay for their operating system, especially
if their business isn't IT-related and their decision makers don't
know much about software. I often hear "We have to pay for Linux? I
thought it is free! Why shouldn't we get Windows then?", and it's not
easy to convince them that Linux is the better choice. So starting
with Fedora can lead them into the Linux-World at smaller costs. Once
they are using Fedora for a while, it's not that hard anymore to make
them switch to RHEL when their needs and their infrastructure grows.
Greetings,
Chris
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