![]() The official one with paid support and contracts named RHEL, the collaborative and ‘community’ distro based on RHEL called CentOS and Fedora. See, Red Hat does have two three GNU/Linux distributions. If you find the articles in useful to you, please consider making a donation. However I preffer to use the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository. The ‘Remi’ repository does usually contain the latest packages for popular software such as the latest versions of PHP, MySQL, MariaDB, Apache and so on. This is where system administrators should carefully read the official documentation for the additional repositories. A staggering situation since many web servers are running oudated packages. ![]() It’s not strange to find out an outdated, unsupported and insecure CentOS system with unfixed vulnerabilities for PHP. Because RHEL is a paid for support model and CentOS isn’t, some packages in CentOS are quite far behind after a few years of use. ![]() RHEL releases are typically supported for ten long years and CentOS is doing the exact same. ![]() It’s not just a commercial interest so everyone gets the ‘same’ system at home and in the enterprise, it’s also, as they say, a sign of good will and an effort to power the people and open source. As a gift, in a similar fashion to Microsoft’s Windows trial versions (without limits to the use), the CentOS operating system is released a few months after the official RHEL version is. With a very good reputation because of its stability and performance RHEL is nowadays the dominating GNU/Linux distribution in the enterprise environment. CentOS is the free open source replica of the well known Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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