I spoke with Red Hat about it last week.
The plan is that Fedora is the community experimental product to release brand new versions, work out the kinks, go bleeding edge, etc. CentOS is going to be used as a staging platform, if you will, for RHEL. Not quite as bleeding edge as Fedora, but still experimenting with some new features for RHEL. RHEL is the rock-solid stable product meant for production use in business where uptime is required.
So picture CentOS as the product between Fedora and RHEL, and it still will not be officially supported by RH, like Fedora is not supported by Red Hat.
Interesting. I never imagined they’d turn CentOS into something like that. Well, I guess Scientific Linux will become more important than ever for those of us looking for a verbatim clone of RHEL.
I’ll keep my eye on CentOS, though. It might turn out to be a nice change from EL’s monolithic nature.
I’ve learned a lot reading these posts, thank you. I am researching to make a switch to linux on one of our computers to get started in that direction. I have an old xp that we use to use for our business. We used quickbooks and ms office. I’m familiar with openoffice, we have that on our laptop. Are there bookkeeping programs available for linux? I’m not very literate computer-wise, so any help would be appreciated. Also any tutorials/articles to get me started. And how to explain it to my spouse who will have to learn a whole new system...