I thought I heard a "David A. Ranch" say:
>
> The major benefit of this method is you can cut a CD that has
> the newest patches on it, etc. But.. you have to download the
> whole thing which is like 600MB off Redhat's site (or one of
> their mirrors).
Which you'd have to do anyway if you found an ISO image :) The image saves
time and commands, and means you don't have to have 1200MB of diskspace
(for the files themselves and for the disk image afterward). The mirrors
have the distinct benefit, though, of being there, whereas there doesn't
seem to be a publicly available ISO image.
> At the last LinuxWorld, I asked the Redhat FTP maintainer why they
> don't offer an ISO for download and he said that they felt that
> people would consider this as an offical ISO and that they would
> then deserve support. I don't agree with them but this is what they said.
I think a lot of people might take it as official; I don't know how much
trouble RedHat has with people figuring the ftp version from them as it is
today is "official" and such. Some mirror sites might have problems with
it too... I don't know.
> If you can find anyone who has a redhat 6.0 CD, have them do the
> following (I don't know if this is pirating software or not):
The one piracy issue is the non-free software that "official" redhat 6.0
(and the 5.x releases too) include, like BRU and Metro-X. I don't think
that RedHat would have a problem with their bulk-rate distributions (rough
cuts, the-distrib-formerly-known-as powertools) being shared, especially
where the distribution is available identically from their ftp site, but
the full price product contains commercial licensed software that does
raise issues. I am not a lawyer, of course, and if copying a redhat
discount cd causes your computer to explode or your hometown to enter
geosynchronous orbit around Neptune, it's probably your fault :)
--Rob
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