I was surprised whe nI went to the ISO section here that RH9 was the 3rd most downloaded distro over the last 30 days with 2112 downloads, and RedHat was no. 4 on of the 15 most popular (and as far as I could see, on RH8 and 9 are available here).

I'm sure there may be times when people need an old distro, but given the number of questions I see cropping up on LQ where users are trying to get RH9 to work on new hardware and wondering why they fail, it seems to me there should be more warnings about this one.

As a side rant - I think we should ban threads where the user is having trouble updating a trial version of RHEL.

I think the download interface needs improvement.
It is difficult to find the latest versions of distros.

The warnings on old versions of distros should also be in place.

So THAT's where all the RH9 questions come from!!!

As a minimum, I would recommend putting the "legacy" stuff in a different folder......

As for helping with RHEL--as long as we don't tell people how to "beat the system", I don't see an issue. I'm sure lots of people get hold of RHEL without realizing that it is non-free. We can tell them their options, but banning the thread might be a bit extreme.

It was a rant - it had to look a BIT extreme. I've just given up responding to threads once I work out that's the case.

Was you you or someone else (chris01?) who had a theory that there had been an airdrop of RH9 CDs at some point?

Would this bear any resemblance to the famous WKRP in Cincinnati turkey drop?

I don't follow

One of their funniest episodes:

http://www.google.com/search?q=WKRP+...ti+turkey+drop
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3661..._in_100MB_divx

Definitely a ROTFLMAOOL.

How about making RH9 downloads impossible?

Bad idea, IMHO. Even if it's old, it should be available. It's extremely annoying when you are trying to find something old (distribution, abandoneware game, etc), and can't find it anywhere, because that stuff is old and was available mostly in electronic form. It's reasonable to put a warning (written using huge red letters) that distribution is very old, but removing it from downloads section is wrong.

My post was half-in-jest, half earnest.

I don't think LQ.org hosts the downloads anyway and I meant as in removing the links from here. People who want them can still use google, can't they?

Members search first with Google? Pfft.. you haven't been answering technical threads lately have you Hari, it hasn't changed much and probably never will..

This has actually been discussed before, not too long ago in fact: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-costs-655491/

Interesting. I think part of the issue is that RH9 still sounds like a later release than RHEL5 or until recently Fedora8 (and on par wit hFedora 9), which is where people are pointed.

Could be the issue. People unfamiliar would or could lead to believe that version 9 is newer than version 5, not paying attention to RHEL and the old Redhat name in front of the version. I mean, 9 is greater than 5..