> I highly encourage everyone to check out Fedora before throwing RH > away. Its the same stuff just different name. I am very happy with my > Fedora box. >
Fedora is redhat's new community project, but for the first few releases it's an all redhat show. They haven't put the infrastructure in place to allow community developers to maintain or add rpm packages. Therefore, Fedora Core 1 is essentially Redhat 10. There is not much else different, from my standpoint the change occured a year ago. When Redhat changed their releases after version 7.3. Redhat 8.0 and 9 were much more desktop oriented. They started focusing on the Enterprise line with AS 2.1 during this time. The support duration for Fedora core is going to be about the same as what the official support interval was for 8.0 and 9. It's just that in the past Redhat continued to support the older releases for years. The frequent Fedora Core releases might be great for desktop use and should help keep Fedora updated for new features. But, it's a pain to upgrade a stable server every 3-4 months. Redhat has not abandoned the retail line, they are releasing Redhat Professional Workstation for that market. It will have a one year support cycle and is based off Redhat WS. It looks like that product may not be renewable after 1 year though. The Enterprise line is WS, ES, AS with yearly support costs. A number of projects are showing up as Redhat Enterprise clones or rebuilds. Like www.whiteboxlinux.org and the cAos project. I do like Fedora for desktop use and I think they've made a good move by including yum support in up2date and including the yum binary as well. I've even setup yum repositories at the sblug.org site. But, for stable server use, I'm not convinced it's an option.
