On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:06 PM, narendra babu <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Just curious about the differences between RHEL, fedora and centos both (
> > centos,fedora) of which are funded by red hat .
> >
> > RHEL is good on Enterprise side , fedora is more on desktop side and
> > centos on enterprise side .
> >
> > Is centos is actively developed and maintained as i see more activity
> on
> > fedora side
> >
> yes
>
> >
> > Could you please let me know what are the major differences bewteen these
> 3
> > os in terms of features , support model , community and industry
> acceptance
> > .
> >
> >
> >RHEL Supported by redhat not always a bleeding edge one . RHEL derived
> from
> >fedora . For eg: RHEL 6 is derived from fedora 14 .
> >People cannot contribute to RHEL i think.
>
> >Fedora Always bleeding edge one since release cycle duration is 6 months .
> >Most of the open source contribution is done in fedora.
> *
> >Centos*
> > ALL RHEL source codes are freely available to download in redhat
>
> Hello Yuvraj,
> Many thanks a lot for your inputs .
>
> just curious can i maintain my dev/test/staging as Centos and Production
> website . So some people out there download those code and built it by
> removing all the redhat logos and changing the background color from red to
> blue ;) and yeah renamed it to CentOS . CentOS is backed by most of the
> linux web hosting companies.
>
> Redhat wont support Centos but you can easily migrate from CentOS to RHEL
> and get support from redhat.
> RHEL and Centos is binary compatible.
>
> For Production Environment
> >If(have money){
> >RHEL
> }
> >else
> >{
> >Centos
> >}
>
> >All the 3 distros are rpm based one.
>
>
> Hello Yuvraj/all,
>
> Many thanks a lot for your inputs .
>
> just curious can i maintain my dev/test/staging as Centos and build
> everything in centos
>
> and move the binaries to RHEL os in Production .
>
I think Yes.
>
> How feasible is this choice and what are the risks i will face as both are
> binary compatible .
>
Works out of box
>
> what are the things i need to consider in moving forward
>
>
>
irc.freenode.net/Centos To get realtime answers ;)
> Thanks
> Narendra
>
>
>
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