On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:06 -0600, Nick Miller wrote: > Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > > > troyston campano wrote: > > > >> I know you usually pay for them, but if you don't want support, > >> documentation or anything like that and don't have a RHN account is > >> there a way to get a copy of a RHEL ISO for home use only? > > > > > > There are couple of "clone" distribution, for example White Box, Tao > > Linux, and/or Centos. They are basically identical to RHEL3 (all > > packages are built from RHEL3 SRPMs). > > > > You can also download for free beta version of RHEL4 from Red Hat's > > web site. Versions of packages in RHEL3 are quite old, so if you want > > something newer, might be a way to go (although if you want to test > > installing commercial package <insert name here> on RHEL, you probably > > want RHEL3 or clone since that is what most of them support). > > > > How well does CentOS and other RHEL clones stack up toe the real thing. > Do people use them as production enviornment replacements? I have often > wondered. ---- It's the same software - so I can only presume that by 'stacking' up question refers to externals. - there is no official support, obviously not Red Hat but also vendors such as Dell cannot officially support it. Unofficially, it is again, the same software. - errata/security updates... CentOS is quicker than White Box. I cannot speak of the others. - mirrors, updates etc. Both use yum - White Box has had some problems lately with mirrors (NCSU dropped whiteboxlinux mirror as of 1/1/05). I haven't used CentOS so I can't comment on effectiveness of mirrors. Also note...RHEL 4 Beta is beta and when it goes final, there won't be updates so it really is inappropriate for production use. As for using RHEL clones on production systems - I do. Makes much more sense to me than Fedora for production systems. I use Fedora on workstations. Craig
