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Posted April 26, 2021
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Darvond: Fedora.
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It's based off the legendary Red Hat, but doesn't have the paid support, while keeping the independent community.
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timppu: I think it is incorrect to say Fedora is based on Red Hat, when it is really vice versa. Fedora is basically the alpha or beta test version of some future RHEL release (which is why I personally stopped using Fedora in the past due to stability problems; I later used CentOS but now IBM/RedHat has pretty much killed it).

Like RedHat itself describes Fedora:

https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/fedora-vs-red-hat-enterprise-linux

The Fedora project is the upstream, community distro of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. Red Hat is the project’s primary sponsor, but thousands of developers—unaffiliated with Red Hat—contribute to the Fedora project, making it the ideal testing ground for features that eventually get incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (after Red Hat puts those features through its own set of tests and quality assurance processes that are separate and distinct from those of Fedora).
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timppu: So, yeah, it is a bit like playing in-dev games: you get to play the latest games, but don't be surprised if there are e.g. stability issues or non-working features because it is basically still work in progress. You are one of the testers.

I guess that is one of the reasons why Fedora seems to be pretty much non-existent in the corporate server world, while CentOS (which is/was based on RHEL) was very widely used. Well, at least until RedHat killed CentOS 8... I guess some server admins now use the free Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 as a substitute, or migrate away from the RHEL family. Maybe a few weirdos actually pay for the official RHEL8 support, dunno...
There's Rocky Linux, and I believe that's not the only RHEL clone that's appeared.
Posted April 26, 2021
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timppu: So, yeah, it is a bit like playing in-dev games: you get to play the latest games, but don't be surprised if there are e.g. stability issues or non-working features because it is basically still work in progress. You are one of the testers.
So what is Fedora Rawhide then?
Posted April 26, 2021
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dtgreene: There's Rocky Linux, and I believe that's not the only RHEL clone that's appeared.
Not yet appeared, so we will see.

The page says 30th this month beta will come out, but I don't know if it is open or closed beta.

Anyway, if one wished to use a free RHEL8 derivative (that CentOS 8 was supposed to be), to me it would appear OEL8 (Oracle Linux) is one existing alternative. But I wouldn't be surprised at some point Oracle would do the same for the free version, what IBM/RedHat did to CentOS.
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