Fedora

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

RHEL is a downstream distribution, based on Fedora, aimed at servers.

FEATURE

RHEL

Oracle Linux

AlmaLinux

Rocky Linux

Years of support

>= 12 [1]

10

10

10

Organization type

Profit

Profit

Non-profit [2]

Profit

Price

Free up to 16 servers [3]

Free

Free

Free

Optional paid support

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Btrfs support

No

Yes [4]

No

No

History

Bibliography

  1. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle.” Red Hat Customer Portal. Accessed July 14, 2022. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

  2. “The AlmaLinux OS Foundation.” AlmaLinux Wiki. Accessed July 14, 2022. https://wiki.almalinux.org/Transparency.html#we-strive-to-be-transparent

  3. “No-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription: FAQs.” Red Hat Developer. February 5, 2021. Accessed July 14, 2022. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux

  4. “Get Started With the Btrfs File System on Oracle Linux.” Oracle Help Center. Accessed July 14, 2022. https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/btrfs-ol8/index.html