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You're looking for CentOS (essentially RHEL without the support contract) or Fedora (bleeding edge, also without support) if you don't want to pay money for updates.

We run an Emergency Services communications platform for a State Government on RHEL. Stable and reliable are what we need; our customers require us to run an OS supported by the vendor. On the odd occasion we have needed it, their customer/technical support has been fantastic.