Free Alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 3, 2005 @06:55AM from the more-crimson-caps dept.

looper_man writes "I'm a hardware design engineer, and our tools have been migrating to Linux over the last years. I've been running Red Hat Linux 9.0 on our compute servers for a while now without a problem. The latest release of one of our CAD tools requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, and will *not* run with RH9.0. I'm not very happy with the (yearly!) licensing fees that Red Hat wants for RHEL3.0, so I'm looking for alternatives. I plan on running one real RHEL3.0 server (for any OS/tool issues if I need to verify that the problem is real), and the rest of the machines running a RHEL3.0 clone. I've seen CentOS, TaoLinux, WhiteBox, and a few others. I don't have the time to spare to test these out, so I was looking for recommendations from the Slashdot masses. I need something that's stable, easy to install/maintain, and closely tracks RHEL3.0. Any words of wisdom?"

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Here's a Thought... by pyite · 2005-05-03 08:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Demand that the vendor support Debian. End the Red Hat lunacy.

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Re:Scientific Linux by cpeterso · 2005-05-03 08:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Does RedHat purposely make Fedora incompatible with RHEL to protect their "semi-proprietary" RHEL product line? Or are they incompatible just because Fedura version N will become RHEL version N+1?

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