On 2020-04-14 02:01, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Good afternoon from Singapore,
What are the differences between RHEL and Fedora Server? Because I think
both RHEL and Fedora Server are from Red Hat Inc.
When do I use RHEL?
When do I use Fedora Server?
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Thank you.
Hi Turritopsis,
Red Hat kind of sponsors Fedroa and uses a lot of
its designs, but Fedroa is a whole bunch of other
people too. RHEL is all Red hat.
The difference are
Fedora is a Kaisen (constant improvement) Operating
System. RHEL is anti-Kaisen.
RHEL is a defunct, locked down version of Fedora,
bugs and all. The idea is that you can rely on
things, including the locked in bugs, not changing
and breaking your stuff, if you can get it to
work properly to start with.
And since RHEL is Anit-Kaisen, you have to run software
that is typically very out-of-date AND NOT EXPECT TO
HAVE ACCESS TO ANY IMPROVEMENTS. Developers have
to specifically code for it with this in mind. Most
do not.
RHEL is great for "appliance" type installations where
you get it working once and then you set it and
forget it.
And you can do this with any operating system by
disabling their updates.
A benefit of RHEL is that you have live tech support
from Red Hat. They will try to help you are far
as they can, but keep in mind the purpose of RHEL
is to lock it down, so don't hold your breath.
As far as Fedroa goes, I have always been able to
get help on these kinds of forms and Fedora's
bugzilla is wonderful. Typically Fedroa will fix
bugs in weeks that RHEL will take five years to
address, usually to turn you down as the fix would
break their out-of-date architecture.
I now only run Fedora servers. I dumped RHEL clones
two years ago and have not looked back. On my own
workstation/server at my office, I still get the
giggles at everything that work perfectly after
dumping RHEL. A few did not, but Fedora fixed them
post haste. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
The straw that broke my back with RHEL was when RHEL
kept deleting my business contacts from Osmo. Mind
you, Osmo had a fix long ago for this, but could not
help me as it would not run on such an out-of-date
architecture.
Now as far as servers go, I install a minimal
installation, typically off a Live USB. Then
"add" what I need. This keeps things simple and
I don't have a bunch of stuff running that is
unused. Nmap LOVES full installs. Lots of
security issues to chase after.
In my technical opinion, RHEL is trash, but it has
its uses, as I outlined above.
-T
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