E-SPEAIT T13

There is a wide assortment of Linux distributions out there and due to the way the idea behind Linux matured as a form of OS that is built and maintained by people all over the world for their specific needs, and most have particular differences between them. It's a good idea to go over and check out what a distribution offers with their unique characteristics and qualities before picking one, and I'll compare Fedora and CentOS as distributions as an example of what one could expect.

Fedora

Fedora is developed by the Fedora Project, an independent project to coordinate the development of Fedora Linux mainly sponsored by Red Hat and the community. Fedora distribution was officially released on 6 November 2003. It was a volunteer project which was providing extra software for the Red Hat distribution, but was launched when Red Hat Linux was discontinued. Before Fedora 7, Fedora was called Fedora Core after one of the two software repositories, Core and Extras. The difference between Core and Extra was who maintained them, Red Hat developers vs the community. Since the release of Fedora 21, as an effort to modulize the Fedora distribution three different versions are available, Workstation, Server, and Atomic. It is developed mainly for the developers and the system administrators. It contains around 20000 packages to make it efficient, secure and user-friendly. It has an active worldwide community, which regularly works on its improvement, with a new update available every 3 to 4 months. It uses package managers such as DNF (command line), package kit (GUI) and RPM. It is more suited for workstation applications and non-production servers.

CentOS

CentOS mainly focuses on the stability and robustness of a distribution. It contains similar features as of Red Hat, as it is delivered from the upstream source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It relies on donations from users and organizational sponsors. It originated as a build of CAOS Linux in 2002, in June 2006 Tao Linux was discontinued and Tao users migrated to the CentOS release via yum update. It uses the Yum package manager as the default package manager. It focuses on stability over being up-to-date or anything else. Support is primarily provided by the community via official mailing lists, web forums, and chat rooms. An interesting part of CentOS is its special interest groups that are organized portions of the CentOS community that open paths for building specialized variants of CentOS. 

These two distros, are an example of the variety of different version of Linux that exist, and capability of a community to be able to make a product or service comparable to the original in a form that is more readily accessible. 

 

 

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