Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Ronygnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
The newbie simply wants to know if he/she can duplicate an original RHEL CD and use it for free of cost installations.
Why is it necessary to dumb things down so much? Is this explanation not simple enough:
"Yes, you can copy it for your own backup. You cannot give it to friends or install it on more computers than your own. It's useless anyway, since you or your friend won't get any updates for it. Here, take this Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu CD/DVD instead."
The above statement has a flaw. Updates or not, you cannot install it on another system. Anyway, why would a newbie own a paid RHEL CD. I recollect now that the RHEL CD that was given to us for free for the course was a stripped version with less server packages and no paid services. Maybe those CDs are meant to be distributed. We even got extra CDs with the source code.