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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.
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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.
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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)
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ClearOS was originally a RHEL derived server but recently expanded to provide desktops - most of their background is in servers
ClearOS/ClearFoundation