Is rhel-5 free?

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by [email protected], Nov 16, 2009.

  1. hbisht@gmail.com

    [email protected] New Member

    Hi All,

    I am new learner of Linux. I want to know is RHEL-5 is free? from where I can download it?

    Thanks.
     
    [email protected], Nov 16, 2009
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  2. topdog

    topdog Active Member

    No it is not free, you have to buy a subscription
     
    topdog, Nov 16, 2009
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  3. damir

    damir New Member

    Yo can always use CentOS, that's a fork of RHEL.
     
    damir, Nov 16, 2009
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  4. hbisht@gmail.com

    [email protected] New Member

    Here is the link from redhat "http://www.redhat.com/about/understanding_subscriptions/". according to this we can copy/use/distruibute it.
     
    [email protected], Nov 16, 2009
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  5. nick192

    nick192 New Member

    It is NOT free. Read complete paragraph again. You can use CentOS, Scientific Linux which are based on RHEL source. They are free and as good as RHEL except few things.
     
    nick192, Nov 16, 2009
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