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Originally Posted by Vipergrün View Post
Download Oracle Enterprise Linux... Its free. It's basically RedHat and the industry standard. CentOS is based on RHEL too. Suse would be another one.
CentOS is binary compatible with RedHat. RedHat can prevent redistributing the whole thing since they have graphics and such that aren't Freely licensed. Cent removes all of that but uses the same source code and same compile options, so is great for testing, development, etc.
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