RedHat Fedora Linuxs

Red Hat Linux now has two descendents, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and The Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives.

The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.

Fedora Core is intended to be a logical upgrade path for previous users of Red Hat Linux whose needs are consistent with the objectives of the Fedora Project. It is a return to Red Hat's roots; 2-3 releases per year, and freely-available downloads that can be called by name even when media containing those bits are sold by third parties (within the constraints of trademark guidelines).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The following table compares The Fedora Project with: Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

	The Fedora Project	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
What is it?	Open Source Project	Commercial Product, based on Open Source
Developed by	Developer Community	Red Hat
Users	Early adopters, enthusiasts, developers	Mainstream production environments
Licensing	Open source	Open source
Downloads	Source and binaries	Source only, or binaries with per-system maintenance/support contract
Delivery	Download or third-party CDs	Download or box product from Red Hat and partners
Release Interval	4-6 months	12-18 months
Support Options from Red Hat	None	Many
Packages Included	Wide range	Carefully-selected list (only mature/supportable/recommended packages)
Packages Versions	Always latest and greatest	Best balance of maturity and features
Updates	Frequent feature updates and package version upgrades	Bugfixes and driver updates only, backported to released package versions
Update Lifetime	2-3 months after next release	At least 5 years
Update Source	Developer Community	Red Hat
Features Added	Kept closer to upstream projects	Additional features and enhancements from Red Hat
ISV Certifications	None	Many (e.g. Oracle,VERITAS, BEA, CA, IBM)
Hardware Certifications	None	Many (e.g. Dell, HP, IBM)
Standards Certifications	None	Many
Testers	Developer Community	Red Hat QA, Red Hat Partners, and Beta Testers
Benchmarks, Performance Testing	By community	By Red Hat QA, ISV/IHV partners, and industry analysts

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