[ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q

[David O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 13:42, Andoni wrote:
> I was just looking at Esat's FTP Mirror the other day and came across
> this:
> 
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/OS/linux/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
> 
> Can anyone tell me what it would take to turn this into a working
> machine? Basically I want to know is this all executable or is it
> source code, is it free to download and use or should I be paying
> RedHat?

It's source code, so you would have to build all the packages.

Several projects have already done this: try CentOS
(http://tardis.linux.ie/view/2595), White Box Linux
(http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/), or Scientific Linux
(https://www.scientificlinux.org/)

David