<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv0856633769"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_13" style=""><span class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_19" style="">Mike, </span></div><div class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_22" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_1_1398367158394_9345" style=""></span></div><div
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could not find out specifically what RDO stands for. Is it a product and/or a community? </div><div class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br clear="none" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_1_1398367158394_9752"></div><div class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The main site is lacking explaination. Thanks. </div><div class="yiv0856633769" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
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class="yiv0856633769" style=""></div><div class="yiv0856633769yqt4052060967" id="yiv0856633769yqt77904"><div class="yiv0856633769yahoo_quoted" id="yiv0856633769yui_3_13_0_9_1398367158394_15" style="display: block;"> <div class="yiv0856633769" style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div class="yiv0856633769" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="yiv0856633769" dir="ltr" style=""> <font class="yiv0856633769" size="2" face="Arial" style=""> On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:52 PM, Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel@graphics-muse.org> wrote:<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""> </font> </div> <div class="yiv0856633769" style="">On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 16:36 -0600, Senthil Punniya wrote:<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">> Would like to use Red
Hat as a system for learning cloud computing.<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">> Is Red Hat Linux available for free/nominal price for personal and<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">> educational use?<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">CentOS is
the free version of Red Hat, sans proprietary things like<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">branding (icons, etc.) and perhaps some custom applications (like,<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">maybe, JBoss?). <br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Fedora is the bleeding edge version of Red Hat and is also free. Fedora<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">has the latest greatest software which, while it seems optimal, may not<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">be for everyone.<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">CentOS is "stable" (see kernel.org) and has long term support, just like<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Red Hat. See <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv0856633769" target="_blank" href="http://wiki.centos.org/Download"
style="">http://wiki.centos.org/Download</a><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Fedora releases are short term with a typical lifespan of about 18<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">months. I tend to use a Fedora release for about 36 months, skipping<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">every other release (usually).
<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">> <br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">> Instead of Red Hat can I use Fedora or CentOS. <br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">> I wanted to use OpenStack, and Openshift... things like that...<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Don't know anything about these. In general you'll find that if they<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">are listed as supported by Red Hat they will probably work on CentOS.<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Fedora usually works, but you may need to be creative in finding<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">compatible prerequisites.<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Personally, I find that Fedora tells me about things coming down the<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">road that I
may not like but don't have much choice in (systemd comes to<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">mind, as does make 3.82) so I have time to get ready. CentOS is used<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">for products we deliver to customers at work because customers expect us<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">to know the
software while they are simply end users.<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Generally speaking, if you need to support customers or just want a<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">stable platform for development you go with CentOS. If you're a hacker<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">and need the latest versions of tools packaged for you then go with<br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Fedora. <br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">-- <br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style="">Michael J. Hammel <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv0856633769" ymailto="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org" style="">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</a>><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv0856633769"
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