Red Hat for a fee?

[bluewhaleCA]

I've downloaded various LINUX distros and played with them a little over the years: I'm now scheduled to attend a SANS week long course which requests that we have a dual boot notebook with Red Hat 8 Professional installed.

I find that version 9 is out. Aside from the extra's one might expect in a 'professional' version, I was surprised to find that I could NOT find a free download of the basic OS on Red Hat's site. I was under the impression that Red Hat was required to offer it as a part of the GNU?

I likely missed it... could someone kindly point me toward it?

Many Thanks


Paul

 

[farley99]

Free download, always has been, always will be(i hope)

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/

 

[bluewhaleCA]

Thanks! Tho it seems the site is down for now, it's still good to find it is available.

Pity they couldn't find space to put a link on their web site, or at least some place logical if one does exist and I assume it must else they would be violating the license agreement.

Say: what has the SCO then theories about IBM scarfing up LINUX done to LINUX users/admins?



Paul

 

[pupu]

You can always try some oficial or famous mirror sites. There is even a list of official mirrors at redhat's pages. See

http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html.