[ale] Fedora or Centos - which is more relevant for someone wanting Red Hat experience today?

[Jim Kinney]

CentOS is built from RedHat src.rpms. They even communicate between the two
for security and bug patching (now - this began about the time of RHEL 5).
The differences wil be inthe installation process (CentOS requires no
subscription key) and in the update process (older RHEL used up2dat,e newer
uses yum with different repos and incorporates the subscription key
process).

Fedora is RHEL wannabe :-) It's a testing ground for new technology and
moves too fast for long term support. RHEL 5.4 is about on par with Fedora 9
for desktop. However many kernel enhancements are backported from
kernel.organd ALL security patches are backported.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:52 PM, <brian.schenken at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya folks,
>
> My work may be sending my team out for Red Hat certs this year, so I've
> decided I'll get a head start by playing around with the closest (free)
> distribution I can. (Ubuntu cured me of distro-hopping a few years back so
> my experience is a bit out dated.)
>
> I'm looking for something that will install, be updated and maintained, and
> host applications/services in the most redhatty fashion possible...
>
> If any of you work with Red Hat professionally and/or have recent
> experience with these distros - would you offer me your opinion?
>
> Thanks muchly, and have an awesome weekend!
>
> Brian
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