red hat enterprise linux 4
A few days ago, I was looking into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. I then noticed that Red Hat has some Academic Options. Any student, faculty, or staff from an “approved” educational institution can purchase their products at the academic price. You get just what you would with the non-Academic version, with the exception of the technical support. For $25, you can purchase the WS version, or for $50 you can access to any one of WS, ES, or AS (you can actually run them all, but you can only have one system registered at a time with the Red Hat Network. I figured you about couldn’t beat the $50 price tag for a copy of Enterprise Linux 4, so I went ahead and sprung for it.
They provided me with URLs to download the four ISO images, and I was able to get a system up and running fairly quickly (note: there appears, at first glance, to be very little functional difference from Fedora). I’m thinking of pushing this to my boss… we have one production Linux server at my site and it’s running Debian at the moment (my choice at the time), but I may consider migrating it to RHEL4.
It’s also worth noting that I migrated my Linux workstation at work to Fedora Core 4 recently (last week sometime). It’s been running Debian since I had it, but I gotta say that I’ve been quite pleased with FC4 thus far (and I’m a huge Debian zealot — which is why the production box is running it).
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