On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > Pravin Dhayfule wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> One of my friend was arguing me that RED HAT is superior to any of the >> FREELY available Linux Distro as it provides Support (although in form of >> Subscriptions). >> >> However I told him that he can get free community support for many other >> free distros and more over they are Open Source. >> >> Now for this he said that Red Hat too is open Source, and he has got one >> installed in his home through a CD provided by his institute where he is >> studying REHL. >> > Official RedHat affiliated RHEL institutes provide RHEL Cds without > support, for study purposes. They are legal. RHEL courses cost Rs. 15 K > and now it may be even more. If the CD has the original RedHat label on > it, it is original.
Yes, Vibrant Technologies (http://www.vibrantcomputers.com/) in Andheri did give me a copy of RHEL 5 as I am presently pursuing my Red Hat Certification course there. They gave me a copy of RHEL 5 on a DVD that did not have any Red Hat logos on the DVD. The Software provided in the DVD did have the RH logos. Vibrant eTechnologies has a tie up with Red Hat (http://www.vibrantcomputers.com/news/linuxnews.htm) and they tell me that they are permitted to copy the RHEL 5 DVD sans support updates from Red Hat. Can anyone from Red Hat subscribed to the list tell me if it is permitted for training centers or even individuals which do not have a tie up with Red Hat to distribute the RHEL 5 DVD if it is used for training/testing purposes without the logo ? Regards, -- Vivek Varghese Cherian Website : http://vivekvc.freeshell.org Blog: http://vivekvc.wordpress.com IRC: Vivek and ViveKVC on both Freenode and OFTC GPG Key fingerprint: 0F53 447E A8D1 C4F7 C14E F117 A040 E935 7DFA D159 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
