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Originally Posted by Mcbard
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It's actually the other way around. RHEL is the upstream distribution, and the red hat team releases Fedora for non server platforms, whereas CentOS is a community driven repackaging of an as close to possible RHEL.
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This is not correct. RedHat base RHEL on a previous version of Fedora (RHEL 6 is based off Fedora 12 + bits from 13 and 14), which they freeze and tweak and, more importantly, certify for some applications and offer support for a lonnnnng time.
CentOS base their releases on the RHEL sources and mirror as closely as possible the upstream packages.
It works like this Fedora -> RHEL -> CentOS
You can usually install Fedora packages on CentOS but only if they were released near the same time.
You can check here for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux