RH or Pendora or another distro for RHCE

[ctdvu]

Hi All,

First please excuse me not quite sure if I post right forum. Since I am totally new to Linux and aiming to get RHCE as well.
I was wondering whiich you'd recommend I should use for studing RHCE.

Thanks a lot in advance

[coopstah13]

centos is a recompiled version of RHEL
fedora is the community desktop red hat distro

Probably either of these would work, but I'm not sure.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

I'd probably go with either Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or CentOS (a free alternative) if it were me. Perhaps some of the others here will have some suggestions for you.



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[ctdvu]

Thank you all for quick response and warm welcome.

I believe RHEL costs a lot of money. CentOS I think it is a good alternative way to go.

Is there any other distros that help me for my goal RHCE?

Thanks again

[daark.child]

CentOS is probably your best bet as others have already suggested. Another alternative is Scientific Linux although this comes with some changes and additional packages that are not in RHEL.

[ctdvu]

Thank you daark.child. I think I should go for CentOS for my study.
I wonder the installation of Centros is the same as RH 9 or not? as speak I am watching CBT of how to install RH 9.

Thanks and Regards

[oz]

Installing CentOS should be the same as installing RHEL because it's the same thing except that CentOS doesn't have the Red Hat artwork and logos, and the paid support channel.

[coopstah13]

I don't think anaconda installer has changed much, but RH9 is very old.

[ctdvu]

Much appreciated all your responses.
I assume "anaconda" you mentioned is CentOS.
ATM I am downloading CentOS 5.3 ISO version. I will let you know how I go about installation.

Once again thank you all

[oz]

I assume "anaconda" you mentioned is CentOS.

Anaconda is the installer:

Anaconda (installer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia