Where could I get rhel5/6 32-bit and 64-bit software? Can I buy a 64-bit AMD laptop to install rhel5/6 32-bit and 64-bit? Will there be any issue with the drivers?
Jay

I am running Centos5(RHEL clone) with a AMD X2 3800 and have been since the release of Centos5. The only big issue (normally) is wireless drivers.

As far as software there are a lot of repos for Centos/RHEL, elrepo, epel, rpmforge, atrpms(personally I do not like this one). Take a look at the Centos wiki to read more about the topic. Also take note of wich repos play nice with each other.

Why do you want to put an enterprise server distribution of Linux on a laptop?

If you don't have a good reason for selecting rhel, you may be much better off with some beginner friendly workstation distribution of Linux.

If you want a laptop to help you learn RHEL (with plans to get employment later that requires RHEL expertise). Then you should get Centos instead (still not a great choice on a laptop, but if the objective is learning RHEL, the laptop is a secondary factor and Centos is the distribution to choose).

Linux distributions often have driver issues with the wireless lan hardware in laptops or even with the display hardware. Since you did nothing to identify the wireless lan nor display hardware, no one is likely to make a useful estimate of whether you will have any driver issues. Even if you did identify the wireless lan and display hardware, no one is likely to do the online searches for you to make a reliable estimate of whether there will be driver issues.

The fact that the laptop has a 64 bit AMD CPU doesn't give any reason to particularly expect driver issues nor any reason to be confidant you won't have driver issues.

Most people in such situation get the laptop first and then either get lucky that there are no driver issues or post details online and get help working through the driver issues.

It should be a good idea to do some searches for driver issues after you have detailed specs for a specific laptop and before you make the purchase. But I don't really know how much safer such searches actually makes you.

If you buy first and then ask for help, you'll find that using Ubuntu (rather than RHEL) on a laptop opens a much bigger pool of other people having tried the same thing before you. That means more answers available sooner.

RHEL on a laptop is a strange choice. Strange choices mean fewer people went that way before and fewer people can answer your questions.

Thanks for the reply. I am looking at the dual core Intel Pentium laptops. Any suggestions will be welcome. Thx.

Impressive job of ignoring the answers to your initial question.

One might ask what you hope to do with the laptop and your budget and other considerations. If you provided such info, someone could even make constructive suggestions about brand and model of laptop (or about whatever else it is that you think you're asking).

Meanwhile, my suggestion is stop asking questions until you are willing to provide enough info that someone could make a constructive answer.

From RedHat.

If you have enough money, you can buy things that are on sale. That's how money works, generally.

Possibly, but they will probably be curable with just a bit of competence. You'll know when you try.

I suppose that's a nice hobby; you do realise that you have changed the subject of this thread completely, don't you?

What of RHEL Client?

How is RHEL unfriendly? Do you mean because of Red Hat not including non-free media codecs by default?

One year update support for Client, what most users would need, is only $49. Most distributions charge as much or more for the media, even if they do provide update support free-of-charge. Also, RHEL is one of the most popular Linux distributions, so I don't buy the "Don't use RHEL because not many use it" argument, Server or Client. If he wants to use Red Hat's distribution, so what?

sinuhe & jsethi ( mostly sinuhe)
a bit of research ( ever just reading the red hat web site or Wikipedia ) would inform you as to just WHAT RHEL is
it is designed FOR THE SERVER ( a headless server ) FIRST and foremost
then the corporate OFFICE second /third
The scientific lab second /third the two are a bit interchangeable

for these things you MUST 100% MUST have a VERY VERY stable operating system where even one (1) crash is very bad .

one really dose not want a MS BSOD on that particle accelerator or a stock exchange( read London exchange- on .net ) !!!

yes one can put it on most laptops BUT it was NEVER designed nor intended for that use
it might or might not work -- it is a crap shoot .