In case I buy one copy of RHEL, then I get the bootable ISO. that ISO in case i want to give to my friend free of cost. Is it Legal or illegal.
[S K Goel] On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:00, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > Neil Harwani posted in linux-india-help: > > Hi, > > I had been using Red Hat 8.0 until recently. Now I have formatted my > > hard-disk and I am reading reviews that Red Hat 9.0 will no longer > > supported and so people should switch to Fedora or something else. > > That is true. Redhat 9 has gone out of support on 30/4/2004. > > > My questions: > > 1. Which linux distribution would be good for me ? I am an average > > person fond of some programming, web-development and interested in > > learning networking ? My use would be more or less like an advanced > > desktop system. Before I install I would like to hear which distribution > > I should install, red hat 8.0 or fedora or mandrake or suse and why ? > > Redhat 8.0 is even older. I'd suggest you move over to Fedora. > > > 2. The charges that Red Hat takes for it's linux distributions like it's > > server operating systems and the new O/S coming out this year are all I > > hope for support and documentation and such stuff, am I correct ? Does > > the license under which linux was released make it compulsory for it to > > be given as free ? I know it has to stay open source and available to > > all but is there also a compulsion that it should always be given free, > > my point is always ? > > There is nothing that prevents Redhat from charging for support. I'd > expect the pricing of RHEL puts it beyond the reach of the average Indian > hobbyist, though. > > What Redhat has essentially done is to stop development/releases along > its Redhat Linux product line; they handed that line over to a community > project named Fedora. They are now concentrating only on their Enterprise > Linux line of products. Priced much higher than Redhat Linux, RHEL > promises longer product life (5 years), better application support > (Oracle, IBM, Veritas etc.) and a variety of support options from > Redhat. Those are the buzzwords that make CTOs and IT Managers consider > Linux favourably. RHEL is meant for them; not for the average home user. > > In any case, Redhat is giving away RHEL for free, in the sense that > they have put up the SRPMs on their site for download. You will have > to download them, build them, and produce a bootable ISO - not a simple > task :) > > Binand ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
