Differences between RHEL and Fedora 8?

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Wed Nov 14 12:35:36 UTC 2007


On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, John Summerfield wrote:

> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: Differences between RHEL and Fedora 8?
> 
> Keith Roberts wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> 
>>> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>,
>>>     For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>>>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>>> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Differences between RHEL and Fedora 8?
>>> 
>>> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So are you saying that the Fedora release is the testing ground for 
>>>> RHEL, by approx 1 year ahead of the RHEL releases?
>>> 
>>> Fedora is upstream for RHEL (ie) RHEL is a derivative distribution of 
>>> Fedora and every third release of Fedora or so is the basis of the 
>>> subsequent RHEL release too. The exact time period varies. Fedora 
>>> releases are 6 months apart and RHEL releases are 12 to 18 months 
>>> apart from each other.
>>> 
>>>> So if I learn Fedora Linux administration, would that cover me for 
>>>> passing RHCE exams?
>>> 
>>> Not really, no. You probably want RHEL or a rebuild of it.
>>> 
>>> Rahul
>> 
>> Thankyou for that Rahul. Can I download RHEL and use that on my own 
>> machine at home without having to pay for a license?
>
> No. Well, maybe.*
>
> You can download the source from ftp.redhat.com and build it yourself.
>
> You can download the binaries created by others from the RHEL source and 
> use it on any machine at all without a licence from RH. Centos.org is a 
> good place for the latter.
>
> There is also Scienfific Linux which, like CentOS, is built from RHEL 
> source, but which has additional packages of value to the scientfic 
> community.
>
> Will either cover you from RHEL exams. I don't know.
>
>
> *I've not checked recently, there may be an evaluation licence available. 
> Check at www.redhat.com

Thanks for that John. I'm just interested about passing the 
RHCE exams. Something I'm toying with to consider doing some 
time later.

Kind Regards

Keith Roberts

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