To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic): Red Hat Linux is a commercial distro, but what they sell is the supporte services. The thing is, you cannot get RHL without paying for the support. But it's still opensource, so the source code is free to download and compile. The guys at CentOS do it, they get all the source code for RHL, remove the Red Hat branding and distribute it.
Fedora is just like a "testing bed" for Red Hat. They often try new things on FC to see if they work before implementing it on RHL. About the "New Interface", that's called Gnome Shell, and runs over Gnome 3. There is an project to maintain the old interface running over Gnome 3, but I don't know how stable it is. But many people who like GTK are turning to XFCE or LXDE, and there's also people going to KDE, to get a more normal desktop environment. I, on the other hand, don't have anything against it... 2011/11/9 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> > >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Miles Fidelman >> <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: >> > >> > Red Hat Linux = Red Hat's original commercial product >> >> Commercial?! You could get it for free like Fedora as well as get it >> for free and then enter into a service contract with RH. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SxMRyvg646XETFtuT_GU7_JoWV2=nneop9hzrucpwv...@mail.gmail.com >> >> >
