topic Re: Fedora ? in Operating System - Linux

Fedora ?

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:32:09 GMT

I am used to loading RedHat Ver 9. We have the CD's for it but they got damaged.

Is Fedora the new RedHat9?

If so, how and where can I download it?
Will it be bootable?

Re: Fedora ?

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:28:28 GMT

Recently (from 2002) RH supports only RH Enterprise Linux distribution.
Instead of former RH Linux line (4,5.x,6.x... 9) we have Fedora open-source project.

So today you can:

1) use Fedora Core linux for free:
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/
2) use RH Enterprise Linux and pay RH for support http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/
3) Use RH Enterprise Linux clone for free.
See this review http://lwn.net/Articles/129698/

CentOS http://www.centos.org/ is the most popular RHEL clone.

Rgds,
Vitaly

Re: Fedora ?

Claudio Cilloni — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:30:49 GMT

Yes. Redhat became a commercial distribution, and Fedora is its equivalent free version.

http://fedora.redhat.com/

you can download and burn the CDs, and boot from the 1st CD.

ciao
Claudio

Re: Fedora ?

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:48:49 GMT

Shalom Robert,

http://fedora.redhat.com

You can download the iso's and create cd's for install there.

As far as I know Fedora Core 1 was the successor to Red Hat 9, not the equivalent. It is the closest release in terms off base code.

SEP

Re: Fedora ?

Al_56 — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:04:21 GMT

If you wish to use the Enterprise version of RedHat and don't need the support, you can go to www.centos.org.

It is the full legal free version of RHEL straight from RedHat (with mentions of RedHat replaced by CentOS).

It's up to date and has a large user group.

Al