Want to download RHEL 5
 

Hello,
Haven't been here in awhile. I wish to download RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 because it's way to expensive to buy. Can anyone make a copy of their CD/DVD and send it to me, or email the ISO to me, or something. Is there a link I can go to to download the ISOs? Thanks!

Ok,

RedHat is NOT free software

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Sure... http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/isos/

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CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform to anyone who wishes to use it. CentOS is built from publically available open source SRPMS provided by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policies and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.). CentOS is designed for people who need an enterprise class OS without the cost or support of the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.
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If you want to use RHEL for free, you'll have to download and build from source code...
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linu...nt/en/os/SRPMS
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linu...er/en/os/SRPMS

[EDIT]

Nothing to see here.

IANAL & IANARHSR (I am not a Red Hat sales rep), but my understanding is that it's legal to distribute and install RHEL without purchasing it. What you actually pay for is support, including updates -- which happen to be rather important if you care about the security and integrity of your systems.

Do not take this as legal advice. Contact Red Hat yourself and get the situation sorted out. Or use CentOS as already suggested.

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edit: According to wikipedia I was wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

So I'll reiterate what I already said: Contact Red Hat yourself, or make another distro selection from the Red Hat or Red Hat-like family.

You can try http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academic/ and buy the Acedemic version. It's not free but it's CHEAP (about $60 dollars...). It doesn't provide you with support but it does provide you with updates and software.

If you want something that is FREE you can try CentOS (which is Red Hat without the Red Hat logo).

-C

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Scientific Linux is also made from RHEL source. https://www.scientificlinux.org/

They have a nice live DVD and CD based on RHEL 5.1

See this thr for a discussion of Licensing terms: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...estion-622512/

Mods:
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Or maybe create a sticky summarising this qn; bound to come up again regularly.

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The truth as I got it from Redhat:
You can download and run Redhat without ever paying them. You can use a 30 day evaluation to download the latest updates. After the 30 days, you may download the source RPMs for updates and compile them yourself.
You only have to pay if you want Redhat to provide updates via the up2date or yum package managers or if you require support.
There are two packages in Redhat that are copy write protected: redhat-logos and one other that I am not sure of.

This information is as I was told in my RH300 class very recently.

Can someone provide a link where you can download those update SRPMs?

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/

dependency resolution will be another matter...

Maybe I should have mentioned it, but I have already looked at that directory tree and found nothing. Unless those updates are merged with main folder "ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS". Under "ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/5Server/en" there is no SRPMS dir (also no client branch, strange).

Just wondering...

What's your reason for not using CentOS? Or buying the academic version of Red Hat ($60)?

Just curious...

-C