To second what Jayson Rowe said, CentOS really does fill a gap. As a person who works on Fedora almost exclusively in his spare time, CentOS is the perfect way for me to experience performance equivalent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux — albeit without the support options — and take advantage of the very long horizon of platform durability. RHEL is the gold standard in Linux stability and performance, so there’s no better way for any hobbyist to run his own servers with zero financial impact than to use CentOS. CentOS is to the Internet homesteader what RHEL is to business.
