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I want to install RedHat 5 Enterprise Edition server on my home PC. I will install servers and clients on virtual machines using Virtual box and study server-client structure at home. But RedHat EE is not free. Instead, I will install a linux server distribution similar to RedHat 5 EE. But I don't know which one is most similar. I know that Fedora is based on RH but it doesn't have a server edition. What are my options?
alwbtc
Posted 2011-11-07T23:18:00.187
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Centos is basically RHEL recompiled from scratch, and i believe their version numbers are identical to their RHEL counterparts - Its commonly used as a replacement for RHEL. You might also want to consider scientific linux, which is another RHEL derivative, and is almost identical.
RHEL has archives of quite a few versions in the 5.x family, while SL has 5.7
Journeyman Geek
Posted 2011-11-07T23:18:00.187
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Thanks. Can I use virtual machines as server and clients using Centos? – alwbtc – 2011-11-07T23:37:38.760
I would consider CentOS closer to RHEL than SL; CentOS only changes the trademarks, whereas SL admits to changing/supplementing the package composition on their homepage. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams – 2011-11-07T23:50:26.987
@alwbtc : yes you can. – Journeyman Geek – 2011-11-07T23:52:52.053
Possible duplicate of RedHat for desktops
– fixer1234 – 2016-09-18T01:33:36.250Better duplicate: http://superuser.com/questions/15602/is-there-a-free-as-in-money-version-of-redhat-linux
– fixer1234 – 2016-09-20T16:23:47.153Actually, RHEL is based on Fedora. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams – 2011-11-07T23:48:14.510