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Originally Posted by cs-cam
Well for starters the free version of Redhat is no longer maintained. There is Fedora Core which is from the Redhat people but I've only heard bad things about it.
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There is just downloading and installing CentOS or Scientific, as they're literally just RHEL without the Redhat branding and paid support, pretty much, and I ran Fedora for three months, it's a nice distro, however the one thing I dislike about it is it's a cutting-edge distro, but it's not a roller, and I'm generally a bigger fan of rollers if I want cutting-edge and/or bleeding-edge, which Arch brings to the table, and I've been running Arch in the form of Archbang for two months now, and love it, however I do wanna set up real Arch at some point.
Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS would be a good enterprise distro as well, really stable repos, and easier to manage than RHEL, CentOS, or SLES and SLED, and Debian Stable has three years support while Ubuntu LTS has five, which, all in all, wouldn't be too bad a deal IMO.
Meanwhile on the homefront, Fedora, Debian Testing or Sid, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu standard or Ubuntu +1, or Arch would be better as you're not really running any critical stuff that requires as little downtime as possible at home like you would be in a professional setting.
In conclusion, if you're looking for a distro to run in enterprise, you'd be better off looking at Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, CentOS, RHEL, or SLES and SLED because of support and stability, while in the home, you'd be fine with Debian Testing or Sid, Ubuntu Standard or +1, Fedora, OpenSUSE, or Arch as you're not really concerned about stability on your home computer like you would be in an enterprise setting.
Just my $0.02.