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Old 12th July 2011
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I think you hit it on the head
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Unlike CentOS all other derivatives are work of people whose day job is to work on those distributions.
The Centos developers donate their time. The build servers, repositories and the security updates are all volunteered.
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With all due respect I would bet that CentOS is the worst clone of RedHat.
I can't speak to which clone is best but previous versions of centos were widely used. I run a small web site for a local club. We pay $3:30US/month and it runs on Centos.

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Arguably some of the above are focused on scientific computing but
for the Carpetsmoker the most interesting will be StartCom Linux (Israel's server specialized distribution)
ClearOS was originally a RHEL derived server but recently expanded to provide desktops - most of their background is in servers
ClearOS/ClearFoundation

Last edited by shep; 12th July 2011 at 07:51 PM. Reason: Added ClearOS server
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