Question: since I intend, when the company will be in "steady-state", to work on a free Linux distro, while supporting it, would you please let me know what would be the connection points, from the practical standpoint, between RHEL and Fedora, compared to other free distros? I'd like to use on some servers the RH supported licenses, and on others a free distro, the "closest" possible to RH. Would be Fedora this one (and why)?
Fedora is still widely known as the "Linux made by RedHat", this fact in one hand and the option to "upgrade" to RHEL without big differences in using and maintaining the system in the other hand is a good equipment for talking to your customers.
I've never used CentOS, so I can't say what the benefits of using this distribution are. But I made quite good experiences with using Fedora for smaller customers, as server- and client-os. Smaller companies are always happy not having to pay for their operating system, especially if their business isn't IT-related and their decision makers don't know much about software. I often hear "We have to pay for Linux? I thought it is free! Why shouldn't we get Windows then?", and it's not easy to convince them that Linux is the better choice. So starting with Fedora can lead them into the Linux-World at smaller costs. Once they are using Fedora for a while, it's not that hard anymore to make them switch to RHEL when their needs and their infrastructure grows.
Greetings,
Chris
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