Contact the Red Hat Software for ordering information. For
other info, send mail to info@redhat.com for an automated
reply (quite helpful...really). You can also poke around
ftp://ftp.redhat.com and http://www.redhat.com for
new announcements and product info.
It is available on CD and via FTP at this point. To find out where you can FTP it from, see the question on Red Hat Mirrors.
There are several Red Hat Official mirrors of the Red Hat FTP site:
<item>ftp://ftp.pht.com/pub/linux/redhat
<item>ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat
<item>ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/redhat/redhat-2.0
<item>ftp://ftp.cms.uncwil.edu/linux/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.wilmington.net/linux/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/mirrors/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.lasermoon.co.uk/pub/distributions/RedHat
<item>ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat
<item>ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/systems/linux/distributions/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.webnet.com.au/linux/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/linux/distributions/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu/linux/redhat
<item>ftp://ftp.msu.ru/pub/Linux/RedHat
<item>ftp://linux.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/linux/redhat
Either of these should provide you with a fast link to Red Hat upgrades or the entire distribution!
The rest of this document has path references to files on these mirrors. Just concatenate that file name to any of the above mirror locations to find the file.
Red Hat Software can be reached at:
phone: (203) 454-5500
(800) 454-5502
fax: (203) 454-2582
email: sales@redhat.com
WWW: http://www.redhat.com
Keep your eye on:
current/updates
on any official mirror for new packages we've made since the current CD-ROM was pressed. Also check the non-free and contrib directories for packages that we can't distribute on CD or packages that users have sent to us. We will also make periodic announcements to redhat-list with updates.
Please do not contact us unless you purchase a Red Hat
Linux CD-ROM product produced by Red Hat Software.
Yes, if you have Caldera then you have Red Hat
Linux, but you bought it from Caldera. If you would like
support for Caldera, please see their web site:
http://www.caldera.com
for their support options.
You can search for answers to your questions first via
http://www.redhat.com/mailinglist.html. This has a search
engine to search the entire redhat-list. If you don't find what
you need, you can join the redhat-list and then
send mail to redhat-list@redhat.com with your questions.
To subscribe to the list, send mail to redhat-list-request@redhat.com with the subject line reading:
Due to relatively high traffic on that list, we also have the redhat-announce-list. It is used only for announcements of major concern to the Red Hat community and is low traffic.
To subscribe to the list, send mail to redhat-announce-list-request@redhat.com with the subject line reading:
We also have a list for developers.
To subscribe to the list, send mail to redhat-devel-list-request@redhat.com with the subject line reading:
Send mail to support@redhat.com or report the bug to the redhat-list. Be as detailed as possible!!! For example, if you can't get Red Hat to see your SCSI drives, tell us:
If you can't get your CD-ROM recognized, tell us:
Again, be as detailed as possible about your problem!
There have been several now. Here's a rundown:
We support all hardware that the Linux kernel supports on the Intel platform. Nothing more. For more info on hardware compatibility, see the Hardware-HOWTO at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO
This also includes the Adaptec 2940.
http://www.redhat.com/program.html
It is a year's subscription (10 CD's) to
Red Hat and some extra technical support. We may also offer
extra "deals" to Program members from time to time.These products are available from Red Hat Software (see the contact section above for ordering information).
Watch for announcements on comp.os.linux.announce on Usenet
or email info@redhat.com or check
our web site at http://www.redhat.com.
Yes. We include the exact source that was used to build the distribution.
From release 2.0 on, Red Hat Linux is built on
a new packaging system called RPM that ONLY uses pristine source
(the same as what you'd find at the author's ftp site) and possibly
a Red Hat patch. Complete information on RPM is available on
http://www.redhat.com.
XFree86 3.1.2 comes standard with a very nice configuration tool.
Yes. Both will install just fine on a Red Hat system with the exception that Metro-X needs an a.out linker. Because of this it does not work right now on Red Hat 2.0, but that will be fixed SOON. Contact Metrolink to see if it is fixed yet.
Red Hat Software
PO Box 4325
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
redhat@redhat.com
(203) 454-5500
(800) 454-5502
(203) 454-2582 (fax)
http://www.redhat.com
ftp://ftp.redhat.com
For the sake of brevity, we can't put that info
here, but you can find it easily on
http://www.redhat.com/rpms/rpms.html
This will not only give you a list, but will allow you
to query the packages
to find out in more detail what each of those packages
actually has in it. We include not only a description
of the package, but a complete file list for each
package as well (binary only).
Both are separate companies. As with any maker of Linux CD-ROMs, Caldera is free to use Red Hat as the basis for their products.
In a word, no. It is not a good performance idea. Aside from that, you don't ``need'' DOS on your machine anyway :-)
However, we will most likely support it soon.
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