Myrddin
If you really need free as in price skip fedora and go with centos..
Fixed it. Fedora is also free as in beer....
Fedora and CentOs are both free. CentOs updates at a slower pace and tries to mirror the current Red Hat Enterprise offering. Fedora is constantly pushing the limits. I work as a member of another project team where CentOs is the Linux system in use. All the C++ code I build on that project must compile and run using VS 2003 C++ for Windows and the current compiler in CentOs. All data comes from the same SVN trunk. The code is multi-threaded with native Windows threads on Windows and pthreads (NPT) on Linux. Drepper did a good job on NPT.