Where can I download Linux for free?

[TigerDivision]

Hi all!

Back in the good old days I used to download RH Linux for free but nowadays you have to pay for it. I am looking for a free Linux OS in order to be able to experiment with it, etc. Where can I download one?

Thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

Which distribution do you want?

RedHat, as well has selling RedHat Entrprise Linux, publishes Fedora, which is completely free:

http://fedora.redhat.com

There's

http://linuxiso.org,

which is currently offline. But that site has a large number of distributions available. I recommend to perform a Google search using the term [tt]linux iso[/tt]. That'll get you a lot of places with a lot of distributions' CD image files for you to burn to CD and install from.





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[m4ilm4n]

The closest to RedHat you'll get I believe is CentOS, which is compiled from RedHat source code.

http://centos.org.

 

[TigerDivision]

Thanks guys!

 

[sleipnir214]

m4ilm4n:
CentOS is closer to RedHat than Fedora?



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[lgarner]

CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL. Fedora is RedHat's leading-edge product, probably more similar to RH8, RH9, etc.

As far as free Linux distributions, you could also look at OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva, among others.

 

[Kozusnik]

linuxiso.org

Try 'em all.
Mark