Red Hat remains the most popular distribution for web hosting, and is still the best known distribution outside of the Linux developer community itself. But with the Red Hat brand now being available only in their commercial offerings, this has given rivals the opportunity to get into the arena. The most successful newcomer is CentOS, which repackages the same software as commercial rivals, while
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