Are there any significant differences between the 2 distros? Or is it RH9 with slightly newer software?

Red Hat = costs money to purchase and has some software not GPLed, I think
Fedora = community supported GPLed software, free for the download

The main big things between the two (non technical that it):
- Gnome 2.4
- OpenOffice.org 1.1
- Kernel 2.4.22

Red Hat are going to drop support for their free products and continue with their 'Enterprise Linux'.
Fedora is a distro that was based on RedHat. Now it is working closely with RedHat to develop and continue RedHat's free distro - just under a new name - and with support from RedHat.
Basically - Fedora Core 1 = Red Hat 10.

I just installed Fedora 1 on my Sony Laptop. I find the GUI a little upscale from past Red Hats but the eye candy aside, I could not make any real distintions between Red Hat 9 and Fedora 1. I was able to use up2date and they had a Fedora patch already in the queue. I downloaded apt for RedHat 9 and it works just fine for Fedora. So, the long winded answer is as was noted prior, Fedora 1 = Red Hat either 9.1 or 10.

"Not revolutionary, but evolutionary" in the explaination on the fedora.redhat site.

I would recommend anyone using Fedora read the ENTIRE site which pretty much explains everything as far as the philosophy of it goes.

This issue, Fedora 1 is pretty much like everyone on this thread said...an updated Red Hat 9.
I have noticed several improvements...it seems a little faster for one.

But the really exciting thing to me is that it is STILL free and no matter what the wording, it IS supported...just not "officially" and by Red Hat directly. It's supported by the community.

Also, the next release will be more revolutionary...because it is planned to use the 2.6 kernel. This will be fun.

I have been running Fedora 1 since the day it came out....and have had NOT A SINGLE
problem....so I feel confident using it with my work stuff. I will NOT update it with Rawhide or testing software...only the "official" released updates and "stable" packages from whatever repository I am using (only redhat's yum, fedora.us apt and livna.org apt repositories now.

The rest of the software, I usually build from sourse as I have found more control
this way over RPM's.

So....wait 'til Fedora 2 if you want something really different!

I agree but I wish Gnome 2.4 wasn't so damn buggy... all aside Fedora Core is great. I'd say RH 9 is more stable though.

i must say that i have been using RH 9 for everyday use since it came out, and have installed Fedora on a test machine.

Even though the test machine is running a p2 350/640ram, i fond that it *can be* a little faster than the RH 9 machine (xp1.6g/768ram). things just tend to run smoother, too.

all in all, i like it alot. i will probably upgrade the RH9 to fedora within the next 6 months.

just my $.02.

dan

How do updates work in Fedora? One thing I didn't like about RH was that I had to "register" with RHN.

Have you tried apt4rpm or Red Carpet?

Easier software management: apt4rpm - Red Carpet

yum .. installed by default during installation. The only thing is that, there is no GUI support for yum right now. '$ yum upgrade' is the only thing I need to do to update Fedora Core 1.