1 Topic by elbekko (edited by Paul 2006-04-11 21:20)

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Topic: Red Hat Enterprise alternative for download somewhere?

Hey guys,

I just put my old computer back together for my dad. We were planning on putting Linux on it.
He wants to be able to run the Sybase ASE server (as he's a Sybase DBA), mainly for his work. So he looked at the Sybase site to check which Linux distros were recommended. Turned out it was Red Hat Enterprise ($350), Turbo Linux Server (not free), Red Flag Server (not free either) and SuSe Enterprise 10 (very costly).
I think this just goes against about everything open-source stands for, asking money for it =/

EDIT: Can anybody suggest an alternative

It'd be of great help big_smile

-- Bekko

2 Reply by HJH

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise alternative for download somewhere?

Checkout CentOS.
http://www.centos.org/

It's 100% Red Hat compatible, but free.
Updates are available for it as soon as for Red Hat.
The thing it misses is official RH support.

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise alternative for download somewhere?

Thx alot, I hope it works big_smile

4 Reply by HJH (edited by HJH 2006-04-12 13:16)

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise alternative for download somewhere?

Well,
as CentOS is just a repackaging of Red Hat (for licensing reasons I think), if you do run into trouble, they're the same as you would have had with RH itself. wink

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise alternative for download somewhere?

gentoo

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise alternative for download somewhere?

To be honest, I don't know much about Linux, but if you decide to go with CentOS, maybe this might help you: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_centos_4.3

I was just over at Howtoforge and thought of this thread.

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