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Posted Dec 1, 2009 10:17 UTC (Tue) by miguelzinho (subscriber, #40535)
In reply to: RHEL6 by tialaramex
Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13

Thank you very much! Finally some one who understands that Fedora is a perpetual beta for Red Hat products.


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Fedora a beta for RHEL?

Posted Dec 1, 2009 19:19 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

Fedora is considered the "upstream" of RHEL... and so far as any "upstream" is a perpetual beta of a "downstream", ok... call it whatever you want. I guess that makes Ubuntu a perpetual beta of Debain? No? Why not?

In any event, there are a large number of differences between Fedora and RHEL. Take the biggest difference is the number of packages. If you want to call Fedora a beta for RHEL, call 1/10th of it a beta for RHEL because the other 9/10ths aren't even part of RHEL. I'm just guessing with those percentages... I haven't actually run the exact package numbers but you get the point.

Fedora a beta for RHEL?

Posted Dec 1, 2009 23:56 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

~ 2500 in RHEL vs ~ 16000 binary packages in Fedora.

Fedora a beta for RHEL?

Posted Dec 3, 2009 5:52 UTC (Thu) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587) [Link]

It should be mentioned that Fedora's EPEL effort provides a large set of extra packages for RHEL.

While these extra packages are not officially part of RHEL, they considerably increase the number of packages directly usable on RHEL.

Fedora a beta for RHEL?

Posted Dec 3, 2009 0:21 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

No, Debian *unstable* is a perpetual beta of Ubuntu.

Kinda.

Fedora a beta for RHEL?

Posted Dec 4, 2009 19:32 UTC (Fri) by misiu_mp (subscriber, #41936) [Link]

No, debian unstable is perpetual beta of debian stable.
Ubuntu is just perpetual beta.
(evil me)

RHEL6

Posted Dec 3, 2009 20:52 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

We're not that rare.

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