LINUX Platform that has more market/demand now

[Al_56]

A free alternative to Redhat Enterprise Linux is CentOS (www.centos.org).

The is basically a clone of RHEL without the redhat branding. It has a strong user community with good support.

If you need enterprise support though, RHEL and Suse are definately the way to go.

Alan

[renarios]

Hi Dave,

What are you planning to do on your Linux box? Do you want to use it as a server or as a workstation?
Myself (and loads of others) are very happy RedHat users. To fool around and learn, download Fedora 4 on cd/dvd and install.
Also for the more serious applications, fedora is a good O.S. (Even my own personal website and mailserver runs on fedora 4.)
There are many communities on the internet (ITrc for instance) with great knowledge, so all your questions will be answered.

Cheers,

Renarios

[dirk dierickx]

fedora is good for knowing and toying with what will be in the next RH release. CentOS is great because it gives you RH for free!
use RH in production environments, though i guess you could still use CentOS in dev environments.