Using Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at home

[Nick Miller]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> troyston campano wrote:
>
>> I know you usually pay for them, but if you don't want support,
>> documentation or anything like that and don't have a RHN account is
>> there a way to get a copy of a RHEL ISO for home use only?
>
>
> There are couple of "clone" distribution, for example White Box, Tao 
> Linux, and/or Centos.  They are basically identical to RHEL3 (all 
> packages are built from RHEL3 SRPMs).
>
> You can also download for free beta version of RHEL4 from Red Hat's 
> web site.  Versions of packages in RHEL3 are quite old, so if you want 
> something newer, might be a way to go (although if you want to test 
> installing commercial package <insert name here> on RHEL, you probably 
> want RHEL3 or clone since that is what most of them support).
>

How well does CentOS and other RHEL clones stack up toe the real thing. 
Do people use them as production enviornment replacements? I have often 
wondered.

-Nick