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I had the same prejudice about Fedora and RedHat back when I was a debian fanboy. But if you look at what Redhat is doing with their money and their company the

I had the same prejudice about Fedora and RedHat back when I was a debian fanboy. But if you look at what Redhat is doing with their money and their company then you soon realize that Redhat Inc. not only IS a large part of the Linux community, but also supports the open source movement in many ways. So Fedora has been my main distro of choice for a couple years now. I still hesitate to order RHEL licenses at work, unless the client specifically has a good argument for choosing RHEL I tend to lean them towards CentOS. And I can speak from 12 years of professional sysadmin experience in BSD and Linux that yum or dnf is a very stable package manager. I've had more issues on Debian 6,7,8 than I've ever had on CentOS or Fedora.

kqr 10y ago
I agree. My impression of RHEL and its likes is that they are "slow and outdated", but the more actual research I do, the more I feel like using them for their stability and security.
- leojackson 10y ago
  RHEL is the Warren Buffett of Linux: slow, methodical, stable, and in it for the long haul.
- ams6110 10y ago
  Agree as well. And I'm not sure about the "outdated" characterization. I find the most hardware driver support with RHEL. If a vendor is going to support Linux at all, they almost always start with RHEL and its derivatives. RHEL is the Linux distro for production systems that you want to just run without any tinkering or surprises.
- loukrazy 10y ago
  It seems to take a few releases longer for new features to move from Fedora to RHEL, but RHEL 7 is pretty current. That stability is great though, you can stay on one version of RHEL for a very long time and still get patch support, especially since major upgrades are so traumatic on most Linux distributions (RHEL included)
brightball 10y ago
There's a part of me that really wants to use RHEL on the desktop to both support the company and to encourage them to put more of an emphasis on it. I'd love to see Dell Developer Edition with RedHat out there. To me, that just seems like a long term win.
cgh 10y ago
Yep, +1 for Fedora 25. The recent Ars review sums it up pretty well: probably the best Linux desktop ever.

kqr 10y ago

I agree. My impression of RHEL and its likes is that they are "slow and outdated", but the more actual research I do, the more I feel like using them for their stability and security.

leojackson 10y ago
RHEL is the Warren Buffett of Linux: slow, methodical, stable, and in it for the long haul.
ams6110 10y ago
Agree as well. And I'm not sure about the "outdated" characterization. I find the most hardware driver support with RHEL. If a vendor is going to support Linux at all, they almost always start with RHEL and its derivatives. RHEL is the Linux distro for production systems that you want to just run without any tinkering or surprises.
loukrazy 10y ago
It seems to take a few releases longer for new features to move from Fedora to RHEL, but RHEL 7 is pretty current. That stability is great though, you can stay on one version of RHEL for a very long time and still get patch support, especially since major upgrades are so traumatic on most Linux distributions (RHEL included)

brightball 10y ago

There's a part of me that really wants to use RHEL on the desktop to both support the company and to encourage them to put more of an emphasis on it. I'd love to see Dell Developer Edition with RedHat out there. To me, that just seems like a long term win.

cgh 10y ago

Yep, +1 for Fedora 25. The recent Ars review sums it up pretty well: probably the best Linux desktop ever.