From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1

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Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora

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From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1

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Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora

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- [Instructor] Red Hat is the market leader in enterprise Linux. A lot of people like Red Hat because it offers corporate support. In other words, you get Linux, but you also get support. However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not free. So Red Hat offers a commercial distribution of Linux, known as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In addition to offering technical support contracts for Red Hat Linux. Many organizations today will use Red Hat Linux because it's backed by a company, Red Hat, providing commercial support. Red Hat Linux is focused on stability and reliability. And with the additional support provided by Red Hat, provides assurance to enterprises and businesses that they can safely deploy Linux in their production networks. If something goes wrong, they not only own, they have a commercial vendor that they can escalate issues to, and get support from. Red Hat have been a distributor of Linux for a long time, and are probably the most well-known commercial success of Linux. They…

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