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CentOS is a community-supported, free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System. CentOS developers use Red Hatâs source code to create a final product very similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS is available free of charge. Technical support is primarily provided by the community via official mailing lists, web forums, and chat rooms.
Fedora is the bleeding edge free product that Red Hat puts out. CentOS is a clone of RHEL, and is free. Debian is the other side of Linux, and it uses the DEB packages instead of RPM. It's old, and is very stable. It's often called the Granddaddy of Linux because so many other distros are based on it. You may find it on servers and in many other places.