I'm deciding on whether I should go with RHEL or Fedora -- what are the pros and cons

[odessitv]

I was thinking of signing up today, but I'm deciding on whether I should go with RHEL or Fedora -- what are the pros and cons on setting up either one?

On the forums I read that a lot of things are preinstalled on RHEL, like php,mysql,java,tomcat, webadmin panel. What about Fedora? Is most of the needed software preinstalled, or will it be pretty empty?

How about rpms -- how easy is it to find RPMs for RHEL, as opposed to Fedora?

Are you guys consider supporting Suse?

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks,
Vladimir

[retep]

You can read more about the distro options we offer at http://rimuhosting.com/distros.jsp

RHEL and FC offer similar packages. Both can be accessed via apt (to automate dependancy installation).

RHEL has a longer support life than FC. So bank on needing a major upgrade/reinstall less often with RHEL. Package versions are typically a bit newer on FC than RHEL. But unless you need the very latest Apache 2.2 this usually isn't an issue (as PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5 are available for RHEL4).

We don't have plans for suse at the moment. If it is requested enough we would likely do so.