1.1 Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora?
This book explains Release 3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS
and Release 1 of Fedora Core.
As explained in the following sections, Red Hat offers several Linux
products, or distributions as
they're called. Moreover, other companies sell or
freely provide Linux distributions. Why, then, does this book focus
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS and Fedora Core?
From the standpoint of market share, Red Hat is the leading provider
of Linux distributions in the U.S. and worldwide. To many people, Red
Hat Linux is Linux. And, among the various Linux
distributions provided by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS and
Fedora Core stand out as the most appropriate distributions for
desktop users, especially those in corporate environments. To
understand why this is so, it's necessary to
understand more about Linux, operating systems, and open source
(http://www.opensourece.org)
software.
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