Redhat Enterprise Linux download?

[Christer Edwards]

Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> Michael L Torrie wrote:
>> You may want to convert the servers to RHEL5 or CentOS5.  Going from FC5
>> is trivial and can even be done without taking anything down or
>> off-line.  FC5 will be without updates very soon here.  Now that CentOS
>> and RHEL are quite mature and usable, I cannot recommend FC (or the
>> upcoming Fedora) for any server duty, because of their very short
>> lifespans.
> 
> 
> I thought Fedora Core updates were done by the community, not by Redhat.
>   Is the community no longer going to provide yum updates for FC5?
> 
> Can RHEL5 be downloaded free?  Can you do yum updates free?  Or does the
> whole RHEL5 world revolve around a required subscription?

Fedora updates are done by the community, but FC5 is soon be to at
end-of-life based on the fast release cycle that Fedora uses.  I think
Michael is suggesting something a little less bleeding-edge for your
server--something that doesn't have a new version every 6 months.

RHEL5 is subscription based only from my understanding but downloading
CentOS 5 is going to pretty much give you RHEL 5, without the subscription.

On a non-FC/RHEL/CentOS note: I run my servers on Ubuntu, but use the
LTS (Long Term Support) release 6.06.1 as it is still supported for some
time, despite also having other interim releases (currently 7.04).

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