# To clarify, I was under the impression that Fedora was, at least
# originally, a derivative of RedHat Enterprise Linux and that the term
# RedHat was typically used both for the company and for the distro that
# bears their name
Not quite. Fedora is the continuation of the distro called "Red Hat,"
which was essentially the desktop version of Red Hat's operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise is the commercially supported version, mostly for
servers and enterprise workstations, which takes packages from Fedora
and modifies and patches them so that they work predictably in that
environment. Fedora is said to be the testing ground for new features
and applications that will eventually make it into Red Hat Enterprise,
and also CentOS, which is also now a Red Hat distro. This said, Fedora
is for the most part the parent of all these, and its maintainers work
directly with upstream application developers. This is closest to what
the original "Red Hat Linux" of 2002 and 2003 was, although it was also
commercially supported at that time.
~Kyle
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