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RedHat is available for sale in retail stores.

RedHat is available for free downloading it from the RedHat ftp servers.

Is there a difference between the retail RedHat and the free RedHat other than the pretty box and the shrink wrap?

Also, this is the site I'm downloading from:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/

What is the difference between
shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso and shrike-i386-disc1.iso?

Thanks.

Brian

You buy it, you get some sort of support from Redhat, you might get some software that isn't included in a free download and of course, you get the pretty box, cd's they made for you, maybe some stickers and a small manual..

The SRPMS is a source disk, most likely you don't need that one..

Hi,

The difference between the retail Redhat is that you dont get the official manuals and some extra software (commercial). I'd say download it if you have a good connection.

The difference between the SRPMS disk and the standard disk that the SRPMS disk has extra source code on it and is not required.

Hope this helps

Shak

Go on, click my affero!

Beaten to it, buy the rather super Mr trickykid!

Shak

trickykid,

Thank you very much for the quick response! No, I definitely don't need the source at this point!

Brian

Shak,

Thank you too!

Brian