Re: Installing Red Hat



Andy Burns wrote:

On 25/06/2008 11:09, chris wrote:

Not really, you only need a licence if you're requiring support.

Oh, I thought it required a serial number at install time? Dunno I've
used Fedora/Whitebox/Centos since Redhat (non enterprise) Linux went away.

I doesn't require one. It (RHEL5) asks for one but you can defer until later -
much later.

It's debatable whether you have to have a license to run RHEL 4/5. RHEL seem to
think you do, but as nearly everything is GPL and it's all available in source
for you to build yourself it's moot. One part which is not GPL is RHN and you
do require the license to access the updates via RHN.

--
Nigel Wade
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