Similarities between Red Hat and Fedora Core?

Question

Whenever I download any software for Linux, I find different binaries for different distros like Debian, Mandrake, Solaris, etc.

However, very often I have found that the same binary is present for both Red Hat and Fedora Core?

Is there any similarity between Red Hat and Fedora Core?

Answer 1

Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT) is one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open source software. Founded in 1993, the company has nearly 1,300 employees and 27 offices worldwide, with its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina in the United States. Red Hat is a market leader in the development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure, ranging from embedded devices to secure web servers.

Red Hat's name came from the manual of the beta version, which contained a request for the return of Marc Ewing's characteristic red and white-striped fedora, should anyone find it. The name is often spelled Redhat or RedHat, perhaps owing to the CamelCase fad of the late-1990s.

The name "Red Hat" is also frequently used to refer to the two variants of Linux the company produces under that name, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the now-superseded Red Hat Linux.




Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat. The name derives from Red Hat's characteristic fedora used in its "Shadowman" logo. However, the Fedora community project had existed as a volunteer group providing extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution before Red Hat got involved as a direct sponsor.[1]

Fedora aims to be a complete, general-purpose operating system from open source software. Fedora is designed to be easily installed and configured with a simple graphical installer and the 'system-config' suite of configuration tools. Packages and their dependencies can be easily downloaded and installed with the yum utility. New releases of Fedora come out every six to eight months.

The name Fedora Core distinguishes the main Fedora packages from those of the Fedora Extras project, which provides add-ons to Fedora Core.

Fedora was derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution. The project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux. Support for Fedora comes from the greater community (although Red Hat staff work on it, Red Hat does not provide official support for Fedora).

Fedora is sometimes called Fedora Linux, though this is not actually the official name.

Answer 2

Red Hat started their version of Linux, but later changed the name for the mainstream versions to Fedora Core. They still have Linux for companies and servers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
So you are likely to find many similarities between them.

Answer 3

RedHat is long ineffective as a dekstop working equipment. there is only RHEL now which isn't loose. Fedora is the "attempt distro" for RHEL which will lead it to be buggy at cases. i'd recommend working a distro thats no longer and unofficial checking out distro OR a minimum of staying a version (or 2) at the back of contemporary in case you reside with Fedora. i'm no longer partial to Redhat (RPM) based distro's first of all. yet i'd advise Linux Mint or Ubuntu in that order. OpenSuSE is robust, despite if that's as lots of a source pig as residing house windows.