[ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q

[Andoni]

Hello,

You say that copies are available from RedHat and Heanet but all I find when
I follow the directory trees is  SRPM directories. Can you please let me
know the path to a compiled version of RedHat EL 3.0?

I will be very grateful.

Andoni.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gareth Eason" <bigbro at skynet.ie>
To: "Andoni" <andonilist at eurokom.ie>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q



   Hi,

As was already mentioned, Linux (including RedHat Linux) is inherently
'free' (as in beer.) You may download it, install it and pretty much do
what you like with it (caveats apply to redistribution) from either
redhat's site (www.redhat.com  - usually heavily loaded and thus quite
slow) or a nearby mirror (ftp.heanet.ie is always good. Check
www.redhat.com for a list of more.)

You may also purchase a box set of RedHat CDs - Last I looked (a while
back) the cost was somewhere in the £70 range here in the UK, and you
get nice printed manuals, a printed installation guide and 90 days
(IIRC) telephone support. I think they throw in a year's subscription to
up2date as well, though that might have changed now. If you're just
starting off and installing your first box, especially if you don't have
broadband, it's well worth the money. The money you pay is for printed
manuals, nice packaging, etc. and _support_.

If you don't want to spend that much money, and don't have broadband,
someone has already mentioned that people on the list will generally be
quite happy to burn you some CDs for the price of blanks and some
postage. Or if you're near Dublin I'm sure you'd be made very welcome at
a LEWD or POTD (Pint of The Day) where you get a chance not only to
collect some disks from someone, but also a chance to have a beer and
discuss $stuff in an appropriate atmosphere :-)

Hope this helps somewhat.

Best regards,
-->Gar

Andoni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for that but I have already chosen the distribution I am going to
use
> after a big distro-war I started about 2 months back ;-)
>
> Now I am just trying to scab a free copy of RedHat.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Andoni.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean O'Donnell" <sodonnell at 3q-solutions.com>
> To: "Andoni" <andonilist at eurokom.ie>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 2:36 PM
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q
>
>
>
>>Hi Andoni, For a non desktop machine , I would recommend debian ,
>>it will make installing and managing server apps a lot easier.
>>you will need mpkg-j2sdk to install the sun jdk , but after that you
>>can just apt-get everything on your list below.
>>
>>good luck
>>
>>Sean
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
>>Andoni
>>Sent: 13 October 2004 16:43
>>To: ilug at linux.ie
>>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Actually what I am looking for is something with no applications at all.
>>
>>I have plenty experience in using Linux just not in installing, compiling,
>>administering, etc.
>>
>>What I want to do is install Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, PHP. Stick it in
>
> behind
>
>>my Firewall and bob's your uncle. I don't care about applications on it at
>>all.
>>
>>Now that you know better should I go for RedHat or Fedora?
>>
>>Andoni.
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>
>>>From: "David O'Callaghan" <david.ocallaghan at cs.tcd.ie>
>>>To: "Andoni" <andoni at ireland.com>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:22 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Andoni,
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:11, Andoni wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I am going to go with RedHat if I can get a free copy so will look
>
> up
>
>>>the
>>>
>>>>>URLs suggested to find where people have already compiled them.
>>>>
>>>>As others have mentioned, if you're interested in trying out Linux
>
> then
>
>>>>RedHat Enterprise (or one of the recompiled clones) may not be the
>
> best
>
>>>>thing to start with. As the name might suggest, this is intended for
>>>>business servers and so is quite conservative in the software it
>>>>includes. If you're looking for a RedHat distribution with the latest
>>>>desktop applications then Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/) will suit
>>>>better.
>>>>
>>>>David
>>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>
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