I found a hierarchical map of all the distributions in big, vast and mostly silent Linux family, while browsing. It is quite interesting and shows all the hybrids and distributions and the parent distributions, from which they originated….cool stuff
click on the image to zoom
Even Linux has got a big family!
source:http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/04/mind-map-of-linux-distributions.html
April 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Hmm. Fedora came as the community version of RedHat, not viceversa as shown in the pic.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
@Sathya
Yup true i agree…a mistake i think……..
I am not a big Linux geek.
But i can’t say much because no one knows the reality…even it is not disclosed in any documents that when exactly redhat planned to develop fedora and from when work was goin on it..
April 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Redhat didn’t “plan” to develop fedora it just happened to go community way, reflecting on the way the community has helped out Ubuntu and openSUSE users. fedora is more like RH “playground” of sorts, dump all changes in Fedora, let users report missong stuff/major bugs and fix them and release tthem in RHEL.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
and yes, a quick trip to Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system) ) will give you the details
April 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Point taken bro…..
i agree……..
smart move red hat planned and executed
April 29th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
this is what wikipedia has to say about fedora history:
“The Fedora Project was created in late 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued. Red Hat Enterprise Linux would continue to be Red Hat’s only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was to be a community project and distribution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux branches its releases from versions of Fedora”