I am mostly familiar with the redhat side of the family.
Redhat is owned by IBM --- https://www.redhat.com/en/about/pre...t-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future
But there are other redhat "like" distro's. Redhat is a commercial Linux. It takes the generic Linux and modifies it. It uses something called yum/dnf to manage it's packages which are called RPMs. Redhat makes it's money by selling support for linux to companies. Oracle makes something called Oracle Unbreakable Linux.
It is mostly a clone of Redhat. But the support is done by Oracle. Two major differences of the Oracle version are that Oracle 7.x also includes a 4.14.x kernel that you can boot into. Redhat 7.x is on the 3.10.x kernel.
There is also Scientific Linux, like Oracle Linux, it is a clone of Redhat, but supported by a different vendor.
Then there is CentOS, is the "free" non-supported version of Redhat. It doesn't come with some of the proprietary binaries that rehat does, but other than that, it is a clone of Redhat also. It tends to run about 3 or 4 months behind redhat as far as new versions, patches and updates go. (however security patches tend to be up to date).
Finally there is Fedora, this is redhat's hobbyist, version. It is where future versions of redhat get tested by everyday people out in the world. Old versions of Fedora are what we call Redhat today. They took out whatever didn't work well, and keep in what was stable. For example Redhat 7.x is on the 3.10 linux kernel.
Redhat 8.x is on the linux 4.18 kernel. But Fedora 30 is on the 5.2.17 kernel. Maybe this will be redhat 9.x someday.
... so my question here is... what is the relationship with the Debian side of things?
How does Ubunto relate to Debian, Mint, MX, Manjaro, etc.... I know most (all?) of these use apt/deb as the package manager, but other than that what is the difference?
Redhat is owned by IBM --- https://www.redhat.com/en/about/pre...t-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future
But there are other redhat "like" distro's. Redhat is a commercial Linux. It takes the generic Linux and modifies it. It uses something called yum/dnf to manage it's packages which are called RPMs. Redhat makes it's money by selling support for linux to companies. Oracle makes something called Oracle Unbreakable Linux.
It is mostly a clone of Redhat. But the support is done by Oracle. Two major differences of the Oracle version are that Oracle 7.x also includes a 4.14.x kernel that you can boot into. Redhat 7.x is on the 3.10.x kernel.
There is also Scientific Linux, like Oracle Linux, it is a clone of Redhat, but supported by a different vendor.
Then there is CentOS, is the "free" non-supported version of Redhat. It doesn't come with some of the proprietary binaries that rehat does, but other than that, it is a clone of Redhat also. It tends to run about 3 or 4 months behind redhat as far as new versions, patches and updates go. (however security patches tend to be up to date).
Finally there is Fedora, this is redhat's hobbyist, version. It is where future versions of redhat get tested by everyday people out in the world. Old versions of Fedora are what we call Redhat today. They took out whatever didn't work well, and keep in what was stable. For example Redhat 7.x is on the 3.10 linux kernel.
Redhat 8.x is on the linux 4.18 kernel. But Fedora 30 is on the 5.2.17 kernel. Maybe this will be redhat 9.x someday.
... so my question here is... what is the relationship with the Debian side of things?
How does Ubunto relate to Debian, Mint, MX, Manjaro, etc.... I know most (all?) of these use apt/deb as the package manager, but other than that what is the difference?