Red Hat 9- no more?

[scarfy]

If I download the distros from this website:

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=7

which is the RedHat distro, do I still need to go to the official RedHat website and pay for it? What are the differences between that website and the official one?

Thanks for your help!

 

[sleipnir214]

Redhat's distributions have long be available on a network of mirrors:

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

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[RhythmAce]

Those are the "official" versions. You do NOT have to pay for them. There is a lot of confusion about that these days. Trying to keep things real simple, here is my explanation of it. Not too long ago, if you went to buy a boxed set, you would see a standard version and a professional version. But when you read the box, the software was almost identical. Yet the price difference was over $150. There were a few server tools added but the big difference was in the support. Red Hat aimed the sale of the pro versions to high end corporate applications. Corporations cannot tolerate their servers being unstable and those of us living on the bleeding edge are unwilling to wait a year or two for a stable release to come out. I mean those Mandrakians and Debianites were gettin' all the cool stuff while we were still waitin'. Enter fedora, Red Hat's answer to the problem. They can now hand hold and spoon feed the upper crust, while letting us radical dude types still play on the extreme edge.

 

[mrunix]

but don't forget, if you install redhat 9, and you register with the redhat network, i believe they will only be doing errata/bug fixes/enhancements until apr. 30 ( using the update agent ) they seem to want to funnel everyone into their newer versions in quite a hurry. i have been using redhat 7.3, which stopped updates on dec 31. i bought the redhat 9 before the announcement.