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LinuxPlanet: CentOS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Minus Red Hat

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CS
Carla Schroder
Dec 23, 2004

“Users who want Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS3 without actually
paying money for it have a number of options:

  1. “Steal it
  2. “Download and compile the source code
  3. “Pretend to be an ace computer journalist and scam a ‘review’
    copy from Red Hat
  4. “Find a free-beer distribution that compiles the sources for
    you, packages them into nice .isos for download, and gives them
    away

“This review examines option 4…”

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Carla Schroder

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