In today’s post we are going to recommend which distro use, from the RHEL family, for office environments and which one for a business environment.
Fedora
- Fedora Linux is a general purpose operating system, sponsored by Red Hat (IBM), which has among its goals: to be a leader in the use of bleeding edge technologies, short release cycles for the new version, one version each 6 months.
- Fedora Linux put great emphasis on usability in order to be easy to use, including by the newcomers on the other hand for the Fedora community it is better to update than to maintain therefore each version of Fedora Linux is maintained for a period of 1 year, hence is better suited to office environments and desktop.
Recommended: Office, domestic LANs, home servers, laptops, mobile devices.
CentOS Stream
- It is the intermediate platform between the innovation of Fedora and the stability and robustness of RHEL.
- It can be considered as a preview of both Linux kernel features and general functions of the next version of RHEL.
- Aims to improve RHEL development, testing, and QA.
Recommended: Office, domestic LANs, home servers, laptops, mobile devices, SMEs.
RHEL
- RHEL is an Enterprise-class operating system developed by a prominent GNU/Linux operating system vendor: Red Hat.
- The release cycle of new versions is every 2 years and every 6 months it performs an update to the existing version, with the main purpose of supporting new hardware, which allows establishing a robust GNU/Linux environment (security, reliability and stability ).
- RHEL only includes well-tested technologies which also contributes to its stability..
- Each RHEL version is maintained (package update) for a period of 7 years.
Recommended: Office, domestic LANs, home servers, SMEs, highly recommended in large/large business environments.
CentOS (Hasta la versión 8.4)
- Community-driven effort focused on providing a robust free/open source ecosystem built around a GNU/Linux platform.
- Rebuild of the source code of the prominent RHEL distribution.
- Release Date: May 14, 2004 (v2.0).
- 2014 became a Red Hat sponsored project.
- In 2020, Red Hat ended support for CentOS consolidating CentOS Stream.
Recommended: No recommended.
AlmaLinux (CloudLinux)
- An enterprise-grade GNU/Linux distribution.
- Open source / Free Software.
- Driven by the community.
- Focused on stability and long term maintenance cycles.
- A solid platform for production environments.
- 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL® and pre-Stream CentOS.
Recommended: Office, domestic LANs, home servers, SMEs, highly recommended in large/large business environments.
Rocky Linux
- Rocky Linux is a enterprise operating system drive by the community.
- Designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.
- It is under intensive development by the community.
- Led by Gregory Kurtzer, CentOS cofounder.
Recommended: Office, domestic LANs, home servers, SMEs, highly recommended in large/large business environments.
Oracle Linux (Oracle)
- A highly performant and secure operating environment.
- Oracle Linux provides a 100% application binary compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux and is supported across both hybrid and multicloud environments.
Recommended: Office, domestic LANs, home servers, SMEs, highly recommended in large/large business environments.
