Thursday, January 31, 2013

Why are some linux distros not free when linux is supposed to be free and open source?

Q. Anywhere I can download Red Hat Linux for free?

A. "Free and open source" means that you are free to modify, change, and yes, sell, programs based on that source code. Red Hat can sell Linux all it wants, provided it offers the source code to the customers. Red Hat makes most of it's money through paid support lines, not selling the product.

You can't download Red Hat for free, since it contains proprietary components that Red Hat wants you to pay for (and you really wouldln't have any use for them anyway.) You can, however, download a distro made up of all the free parts of Red Hat, and configured in much the same way. This distro is called "Fedora."

http://fedoraproject.org/

Where can I download red hat linux 9 free?
Q. I am a student of CSE 5th Semester. Please help me !!! How and from can I download red hat linux 9 free.

A. First you have to track it down, that might be a bit tricky since it is several years out of date.

You can get the latest version of RHEL from http://redhat.com/ and Fedora from http://fedoraproject.org/ - they are the two successors to the old Red Hat. (RHEL is commercial, Fedora is free).

If you really want to get your hands on the obsolete, unmaintained version then try ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ - but they haven't fixed security holes in it for years, so I strongly advise you not to.

Is there any other OS set of Linux software for download?
Q. Ubuntu is a set of Linux operating system software with the Linux OS that is distributed over the web. Is there any other set of Linux operating system software that is distributed over the web? Red Hat does provide Linux for download but it provides only the OS, I think.

A. Ubuntu, Red Hat and most other distros are complete, and often quite large downloads. There are some specialty distros that are smaller.

www.distrowatch.org lists 360+ distros. Check them out. Basically any of the main stream distros will be just as complete and can load pretty much the same software sets - with some (usually only) minor differences, if any.

If you get a distro DVD, you will get much more software than you would get with a Windoze installation. CDs because of size limitations don't have that quantity, but they should have links in the software to download as much as you would like once the program is set up and running.



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