Hi Thomas,
You can get redhat Enterprise Linux (Its new name) for free, but to be able
to update it, install software using apt, you will need to pay annual
licenses. It's really not easy to use RHEL (Red hat enterprise Linux)
without the annual license. On the plus, it has support for 2 processor
Socket motherboards, and I find its GUI more stable than Fedora's. Fedora's
crashed sometimes while changing resolution, multiple monitors.
Fedora is the free redhat, with Enterprise features lacking. I found it hard
to install video drivers (as compared to Ubuntu), and its wasn't as
anesthetically pleasing as Ubuntu.
As for the commands, with RHEL, administrative PATHs are not in normal user
paths. E.g. running ifconfig may give command not found, as normal user, and
work as root. But that just requires adding the PATH for administrative
commands to the normal user's PATH.
The rest of the commands are the same though on all Linux platforms I've
used.
netconfig runs on both, and you can edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts on
both though I think they have different names like
/etc/sysconfig/networking/eth{x}
I wouldn't recommend having RHEL if you do not have a license, unless
someone knows a way to use Centos or Fedora repos on RHEL (which I tried but
failed).
Daniel.
From: Mayengo Thomas [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:13 PM
To: 'Linux Users Group Uganda'
Subject: [LUG] Difference between Redhat and Fedora
Dear brothers and sisters in Linux and Unix,
I come her with a very specific problem, I need your help.
Before I turned to Ubuntu (after some one persuaded me to) I was using
Redhat (I managed to get a free copy from a friend although now I cant find
it) and now I have just realized the file structure of these two Linux
distributions (debian and Redhat) have some sorts of differences, which is
making my life hard a lil bit.
Checking on the Redhat possibility, it is no longer free and they advise you
to go for other distros which are redhat like but not truly redhat. One of
these distros is Fedora, which I have kind-of picked interest in using.
After falling in problems with Ubuntu, I don't want to fall into other
problems with any other distros, so I would like to get a distro that has a
similar (if possible the same) commands and structure as Redhat.
Although Fedora is not supported by redhat.inc, it is strongly shown that
the societies have an interlink. Some one stated that Redhat is using Fedora
code, and some other one said that Fedora is using a Redhat Kernal and so
many arguments (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=199516) and
(http://forum.notebookreview.com/linux-compatibility-software/314023-there-d
ifference-between-fedora-redhat.html )
Although these links try to pin point the differences between redhat and
Fedora, I have not managed to find the actual answer. No one has come out to
give a personal experience on the differences, and no one gives the
differences in the structures and commands but they actually relate and
compare the societies.
I know redhat is enterprise and I know the differences between the
societies, I don't want to know more about them ,but I would like to now the
actual differences between the two OS distributions. Specifically, Am
wondering whether I shall have to go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and
find there what I want, I wonder whether I shall have to run a command like
netconfig and get a response other than command not found
I would have liked to download the installation CDs and try every thing out
till when I get the distro which gives me the feel of redhat but I cant do
it now with the internet am using.
I pay for every packet I consume so I cant start downloading GIGABITS of
test distributions. It is really expensive.
My request goes to those people who have tested Fedora or any other distro
which will give me the memories and structure of redhat. Can I go ahead and
download it?
Please your suggestions are highly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Mayengo Thomas Kizito
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