Centos and FC4
 

G'day all,

Can someone simply state the differences between Centos and Fedora? Other that cosmetics, what are they?

Thanks

John

The easiest answer is to read through the CentOS FAQ's - http://centos.org/modules/smartfaq/c...p?categoryid=2 rather than get people to write them out all over again. That sums it all up quite nicely, just remember CentOS isn't a direct replacement for Fedora in terms of desktop use, but RHEL.

CentOS 4 is a repackaged version of RHEL4 and is somewhat similar to FC3 with respect to look, feel and content.

Fedora Core is a cutting-edge distribution where software is constantly updated to the newest stuff (and so is possibly less stable). Also, Fedora Core is community-developed and maintained and has much more packages than CentOS / RHEL. CentOS / RHEL is designed to be very stable and so has older software doesn't get updates to their software once released (except security fixes). To some extent, RedHat uses Fedora Core as a testing bed for software in future releases of RHEL.

Thanks guys for your responses.

John