We have seen Red Hat promoting CentOS since 2013. The CentOS is popular as the community supported open source Red Hat Linux distribution. Red Hat has contributed a lot to CentOS. The distro has been developed in inevitable way since Red Hat has been embracing it. But all of a sudden Red Hat is setting a new road map for Fedora by announcing Fedora for servers.
The
release of RHEL 7 was one of the best decisions Red Hat took in order
to develop CentOS like never before. CentOS users often use RHEL for
community development and discussions. Fedora development was kind of
ignored by Red Hat for many years. Fedora has always been a sandbox
distro. It is quite popular as desktop distro as well. Unlike
Debian-based distributions, architecture of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora is
quite similar.
But
Red Hat just announced the version of Fedora for servers. The new
Fedora comes in three flavors- Cloud, Server and Workstation. These
versions of Fedora confuse us about Red Hat’s ultimate goal. Red Hat has
not clearly classified its focus by announcing the release of three
different flavors. Is Red Hat trying to create RHEL like community
powered server distribution or it is aiming at workstations for small
businesses? The cloud version of Fedora doesn’t make any sense. Fedora
is quite unstable to be used on cloud. At the same time Red Hat is also
working on the development of CentOS and RHEL. It will be interesting to
see Fedora doing a real server work.
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