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RHEL - Eval/Academic/Commercial, are they the same?
I have been looking at replacing a 15 year old EISA server (not kidding, 50 Mhz) running RH 6.1 with something more current.
Plan was to use an AMD K6-2 550 Mhz processor, 512M memory, 180G hard drive and install Fedora Core 3 or 4.
Fedora Core 3 has problems -- if you install Everything for package choice and then go to update it, you will find on re-boot a bunch of selinux type security problems. While I could research and fix them, I feel that installing a released copy of Linux and current released updates that fail, is the same as buying a new car and the wheels falling off on the way home.
Fedora Core 4 has problems -- if you install Everything for package choice and then go update it, you will find the update will not complete due to some dependency issues someplace, the latest being in a polish file for KDE if I recall correctyly. Not sure how the fixes get released when they fail "out of the box".
So, I am now considering trying a 30 day eval of the RHEL AS server product and if it works, I can buy a year subscription under their academic program for $50 as I take 6-8 college credit hours of classes each semester to maintain my Micro$oft $kills. Continuing education certainly can offer big educational discounts!
The question:
Do the eval, academic, and commercial subscriptions all use the SAME binary distributions for the RHEL products?
Ie. if I use the 30 days of the eval and then buy the academic for $50, would I need to re-install the software to use the new academic subscription?
It appears the eval and academic offer the same support level - download of binaries and updates only. It also appears they all use the same binaries. If someone knows for sure, it would be a big help.
Thank you,
Steven (steven@sgbradley.com)
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