Redhat is a commercial product that you have to pay money to use. CentOS is supposed to be a pretty good server OS.
However, I'd choose Ubuntu (and have) for this reason, amongst others: you can run the same OS on your server as on your desktop. You might be able to do that with Fedora, too, but Fedora is not Redhat's main focus, like Ubuntu is with, well, Ubuntu.
Fedora is very good about free software, no doubt about that - they deserve a lot of credit for sticking to their guns on that issue. My point was merely that Fedora is sort of where Redhat tests things out, the "real product" is still Redhat Linux. Ubuntu is Ubuntu for everyone though.
Also... I'm biased: I've been using Debian since 1996, so it's what I know best.
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Redhat is a commercial product that you have to pay money to use. CentOS is supposed to be a pretty good server OS.
However, I'd choose Ubuntu (and have) for this reason, amongst others: you can run the same OS on your server as on your desktop. You might be able to do that with Fedora, too, but Fedora is not Redhat's main focus, like Ubuntu is with, well, Ubuntu.
Fedora is still free, as are non-supported, white label builds of Red Hat Linux Enterprise.
Fedora is very good about free software, no doubt about that - they deserve a lot of credit for sticking to their guns on that issue. My point was merely that Fedora is sort of where Redhat tests things out, the "real product" is still Redhat Linux. Ubuntu is Ubuntu for everyone though.
Also... I'm biased: I've been using Debian since 1996, so it's what I know best.