I have been forced into quite a conor at work these days and here is my problem. The project that I am working on requires Redhat 8.0 with as few updates as possible in order to support the baseline of the reviewed software. I would like to check my email while in Linux via the built in Evolution. I ran the setup for Evolution and there is no option for Microsoft Exchange server. I have done some digging around the net and have found that you need at least version 1.4.6 for the option to be present. My current version is 1.0.8-10. I have run up2date and it says that Evolution is updated, but I have gone to rpmfind.net and it says that the current is 1.2.2-4 for RH 9.0 and 2.2.2-5 for FC4, etc. I am of course new to Linux and I don't know if I can install the FC version on 8.0 or what I have to do at all. Someone please help. And if you do I have a bunch more questions for you

I can't be much help but I do know this: RedHat no longer exists for free since anything post version 9. The replacement is called Fedora, and they are up to Core 4, hence FC4. Just as you should not mix RedHat versions by installing version 9 stuff on an 8.0 installation, you should not install FC4 stuff on any RedHat installation.

~Viz

By the way, do you know where is the Fedora download site ? i would like to get familiar with Fedora, now I am rather on Mandrake which is sometimes slightly different.

The fedora main page can be found here, and from here various downloads etc. can be found.

~Viz

thanks a lot.
I heard that they have a version for Power5, I would like to know if it works in a sub-partition.

so redhat is no more. just when i finally got the ver 9 last year. Tryed it but could never get it to work the way I know it should. still think part of my problem was my service provider changing my ip every 24 hr's other not knowing linux very well. will try again later but not now its a shame we lost another free platform.

KE, we didn't lose the free platform, we just lost the name. RedHat is now sold as Enterprise Edition only with special tools for businesses. The free version of RedHat lives on under the new name of Fedora so as not to get the two confused.

And yes, I believe the P5 version of Fedora and RedHat will work in a subpartition.

~Viz

do u mean PowerPC G5 processor?

xboxrulz

yes, that's exactly what I meant. The Red Hat Enterprise versions are rather expensive, so for testing purposes I would like to try with Fedora. But, for "quick-and-dirty" tests, the bootdisk should be able to boot, create partitions and write down the booting area, so that the system reboots without more complicated things. And, on the Power5 processors, you can create a system with only 0.2 cpu power, which means that creating a testing machine is easy. Next step of course : testing Oracle for PowerPC on Linux for PowerPC.