rhel-fedora
Installation
SKILL.md
RHEL-Fedora: Fedora and RHEL-Family Administration
Administer Fedora, RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Amazon Linux, and nearby RPM-family systems without flattening their important differences. Start by separating the fast-moving Fedora lane from the conservative enterprise lane, then account for vendor quirks such as subscription-manager, CentOS Stream drift, Oracle UEK, Amazon's cloud-first defaults, and SELinux or firewalld behavior that people love to blame on the wrong layer.
Versions worth pinning (verified May 2026):
Only pin versions here when they materially affect compatibility or troubleshooting shape. For ordinary package work, prefer the live distro lane and repo state over a stale package table.
| Component | Version | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Fedora stable | 42 | current mainstream Fedora baseline |
| Fedora next branch | 43 / verify live | useful when a bug is really Fedora-next behavior |
| RHEL enterprise lane | 10.x | current enterprise baseline in the new major lane |
| RHEL previous major | 9.x | still widely deployed and behaviorally different from 10 |
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