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What happened to Fedora?
Fedora is alive and well. It suits better as a workstation or testing server operating system, using it on production isn't a good idea.
Rhel unlike fedora is very stable and I believe it has support for over 8yrs which is a lot. Rhel unstable however doesn't have a support time and can be unpredictable. It isn't as unstable as fedora but is compared to Rhel Stable.
So the fact that cent os which was previously based on Rhel stable is a huge issue. Because lots of production servers rely on it and don't want to purchase the incredibly expensive Rhel stable license.