Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 1,119 Location: Citrus County, Florida
29 Sep 2009, 5:02 pm
I wanted to get a few copies of Red Hat to deploy over a network. However Red Hat is not like the other distros in which you actually have to pay good money for it. Any help
Joined: 8 Aug 2007 Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 12,518 Location: Room 101
29 Sep 2009, 6:19 pm
CENTOS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux minus the branding, tech support, and hefty price tag. Literally identical code through the whole thing, just recompiled without Red Hat branding and it's freely downloadable. Or you could use Fedora, which is Red Hat's community-driven distro. It stays more up to date, but is rather less stable.
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The key benefit with red hat is the support you get with it. you are paying a company to keep it up to date. that's why CENTOS is the same and free. if you want red hat then get red hat but unless you need the tech support go with a free distro.