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CentOS vs Fedora
CentOS is under CentOS trademark owned by Red Hat whereas Fedora is under Fedora trademark owned by Red Hat and also the domains of both the CentOS vs Fedora are owned by Red Hat.
In resume: projects close to RedHat ...
Both projects are Red Hat related, one are ahead of and the other behind of, main diference from others distributions it's their lack of packages and setups, due the shared market focused target of both.. obviously due the RedHAt relationship.
Basic Table comparison
| Topics | CentOS | Fedora |
|---|---|---|
| Target marked | Servers primary | Workstations primary |
| Main Base? | Before/refined of RedHat RHEL | Ahead/mainline of RedHat RHEL |
| Main license | GPL | Opensource |
| Licenses | GPL + Open + Freeware | GPL + Open + Propietary |
| Features | RedHat community version project | Main RedHat zone preview for |
| Releases | 6 years Long time stable releases | 6 months Short time "almost stable" |
| Community | RHEL based community-driven | Main community where RHEL are based |
| Development | Based/Sponsored/Managed by RHEL | Main project for RHEL based developments |
| Packages | RPM: yum (cli) or PackageKit (gui) | RPM: dnf (cli) or PackageKit (gui) |
| Prefered by: | Most middle knowledge admins | Fashioned not so experts admins |
| Widdely used | Market oriented enterprise class | Mostly any device in fashioned way |
| Device archs | x86 and x64 as main | x64 only |
History so far
RHEL was a marketplace Linux suscription product.. Fedora was a response that made all RedHAt related publicy free available so then RedHat takes as laboratory zone for future development, CentOS was the response agains fashion way of Fedora method of distribution, later RedHat takes the project and owns as a free version closes to their closed zone named RHEL, as a trick to users came to RHEL.
Conclusions
CentOS package contains all the required things for entire release where as Fedora distributes its most of the packages over the network rather than in a single distribution.
CentOS officially supports server oriented with some desktop behaviour amking familiar to most windosers users Fedora current versions support Servers, Work Stations, and Personal Computers such like windos market does.
CentOS are long time support as up to 10 years as it was based on RHEL whereas Fedora are short life cycle as it supports only for at least 13 months and so on.
Both have lack of fine-rare packages and setups, due the shared market focused target of both.
For Desktop usage focused there are the Fedora proyect due are more fashoned way. For Service usage focused there are the Centos proyect due are more stable way.