which do you prefer, red hat or fedora?

sc3252 · 05-05-2004, 12:25 AM

never used red hat so i voted fedora.

linuxzouk · 05-05-2004, 01:08 AM

since redhat 9.0 has gone EOL, i'll go for fedora

AMMullan · 05-05-2004, 01:35 AM

Fedora - newer kernel and I like the RGB (Graphical Boot).. plus yeah I don't see the point of running something that won't be supported for very long.

sweet*amber · 05-06-2004, 03:30 AM

i think fedora is quite cool than RH

maxut · 05-06-2004, 11:16 AM

fedora has newer kernel and newer versions of softwares. so it is better. lots of bugs and security hole have been removed but maybe lots of them created

JoAnywhere · 05-06-2004, 12:54 PM

The question is a little strange.

The two products have distinctly different market niches. Its sort of like asking 'do you prefer a porsche or a kenworth'... the answer depends on what you are doing.

If you want to deploy major enterprise servers into a large corporate, I think Redhat would have to be the better option.

For small servers, smaller companies, people looking to use Linux at home, people looking to experiment etc, people/organisations not looking for the support that comes with an enterprise supported OS then fedora is better.

Regards
Jo

explorer · 05-06-2004, 03:08 PM

If you're comparing the last standard RH release, version 9 to Fedora, then Fedora is clearly the best choice, it's a newer more robust product, infact I've heard that it actually was RH 10 before the name change to Fedora. Like Jo said, you can't really compare RHE to Fedora.

mjenkins · 05-19-2004, 07:59 AM

redhat is better for corporate snoobs who need support
fedora is better for home

however i am sticking with FC1 for now. i have dual monitors and am dual booting win2k and it seems there need to be some fixes created for these... also i lost a lot of data on the 2.4ish kernel upgrade issue with vfat drives and i already had to upgrade into 2.6ish to fix this.

halo14 · 05-21-2004, 06:37 PM

I vote fedora all the way... it's got better/newer features.... i still like redhat though... i'm running rhel ws 3 on my main desktop and fedora 2 on my notebook and other desktop...

darthtux · 05-21-2004, 07:23 PM

I used Red Hat for 5 years throught versions 5/6/7/9. They were good till 9 which really sucked. I switched to Debian and have never been happier.

colnago · 05-22-2004, 02:17 AM

What is the difference? My work rh9.0 looks just like fc2 at home.

mjenkins · 06-07-2004, 08:06 PM

okay, i take my post back. i upgraded to fc2 last week and it blows the old away. i didn't have any upgrade problems at all.