Free RH ES 4.0 or equvelent

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 05:38:54PM +0600, lasa wrote:
> Is there any way to download Red Hat ES 4 (ISO) freely in www.kernal.org or
> any where. If it is not what will be the equivalent updated release for free
> download.

The RHEL sources are freely downloadable at ftp.redhat.com.  There are
various projects that take the sources and build a distribution (see
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/RedHat/rhel-forks.html).

There are a few things you need to be aware of - the main one is that
you do NOT end up with RHEL when you're done.  You end up with something
very close to RHEL but there are 3rd party applications that won't
install or run, and there may be bugs in the binaries that the
rebuilders have built that aren't in the Red Hat binaries (this has
happened in the past because the compilers Red Hat used to build the
binaries weren't the same ones as they were shipping).

You should also look at the Fedora release if you haven't already - it's
the truely freely downloadable release from Red Hat.
http://fedora.redhat.com.

-- 
Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program