“Kinda strange there’s no mention of CentOS. If one is going for the RedHat family, Fedora is the leading (if not bleeding) edge distro. But if one wants RedHat’s legendary stability, and doesn’t want to pay the premium for RHEL, CentOS is RHEL with free community support.”
Hi Dayglored!
The intro did mention that Fedora and Ubuntu were among the leading “desktop” distributions. RHEL and CentOS are definitely more server oriented. As a developer I prefer to use an Ubuntu based distro and then deploy to RHEL/CentOS.
CentOS is indeed a great option if you want to set up a RHEL environment without paying the Red Hat tax. It’s also great for learning about RHEL, although there’s now also a free option through RH for developers/students. (It’s also worth noting that if you pay the nominal charges for an AWS EC2 server, Amazon offers RHEL as an option included at no extra charge.)
Side note: the RH certification program is an excellent way to become an IT professional without necessarily having a degree. Companies are paying top dollar for Linux admins these days...
Yes, it is, but it can be quite difficult to pass the certification exam.