> I just talked to sales on the telephone. From what he said, all the > features of the Red Hat Enterprise product is available on the internet, > just not assembled the same. Version 2 is based on RH 7.1 (or 2) and > version 3 will be based on RH 9.0. In purchasing the enterprise > products, a buyer has to sign a contract requiring them to have only one > machine per support contract or the contract is voided. IF someone > compiles all the free source code, they could (I believe, based on the > conversation) distribute the disks, however, that doesn't account for > the updates Red Hat makes. They may not be freely available except to > subscribers. > > Either compiling all the options or consolidating all the necessary > files for an Advanced server can get you a legitimate copy for free, but > the ease of installation, support, and updates will be more difficult, > if not impossible to keep up with.
It is actually quite simple really. Mirror the SRPMS from updates.redhat.com then produce RPMs using rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm. Create a yum repository, then all that is required to keep your machine up to date is 'yum update'. Using network installations or ISOs incorporating all the errata packages, it makes installation a lot easier than using the real RHEL+up2date. Of course you wont get support from RH if you build your own version, but some people just want a slow moving stable release and the errata packages. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
