Fedora vs. CentOS

From: Shabam (chalupa_at_yomama-nospam.com)
Date: 10/05/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:42:26 -0700

What is the difference between Fedora and CentOS? I was told to upgrade an
old Redhat 8 system to CentOS, but wondered why.

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