Words Of Wisdom said:
They are not free in the respect that if you get CentOS instead of RHEL, you are getting CentOS. Nearly identical (compiled slightly differently) distros are still different distros. I never said they were clones so find another strawman to knock down. I know the history of them quite well and have personally used all but the original Fedora (Core) distro. Fedora is actually my favorite series of Linux too and it's not unstable. That's a stupid myth that should have died long ago. |
I'm not trying to bash you, really. CentOS is much closer to RHEL than Fedora is, and I know you know that.
And by unstable I don't mean literally, I mean it tends to be at the cutting-edge of new updates which then get tested and bugfixed for up to a few years before RHEL. I would say Ubuntu, Fedora and Opensuse are all in the unstable category like that, whereas RHEL, SLED and Debian are in the stable one.
That said, Fedora tends to be slightly forward of all other distros which can cause "problems" like X Server incompatibility with proprietary video drivers. That's in no way a problem with Fedora.
