Is the Fedora Project independent of Red Hat, Inc.?
The Fedora Project is a community project, separate from Red Hat, but Red Hat sponsors the Fedora Project and provides a great deal of valuable management and resources to the Fedora Project. Red Hat uses the material that the Fedora Project produces to develop its enterprise platform offerings. Red Hat has a strong interest in Fedora, and the success of the Fedora Project has been thanks to the great contributions of Red Hat.
What is the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Both Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are open source. Fedora is a community project and serves as the base platform on which RHEL is built. The cost of RHEL comes from the subscription, which provides assorted certifications and support for additional architectures, as well as 7 years of enterprise support. Red Hat also enhances its RHEL offerings with additional software and with certification programs. Misinformation and confusion notwithstanding, the base RHEL distribution is open source, and the complete source code can always be downloaded from Red Hat's FTP servers.
Red Hat provides a comparison between the two options on their website:
* https://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/
More information on the release history and lineage is available from the following link:
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History
When you purchase RHEL, you are also helping to support Fedora. Since Red Hat sponsors Fedora, what is good for Red Hat is usually good for Fedora.
Источник - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ#head-662...aaa7ae76f8a669d
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После этих слов в моих глазах Fedora только набирает очки, а никак не теряет их.
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