- All right, so as we have learned,
there are different versions in the Red Hat Linux family.
And I wanna tell you how to get all three of them
because it should be your choice what you want to work with.
If you wanna work with the real thing,
then you go to developers
.redhat.com.
And on developers.redhat.com,
you can get access to free software.
The only requirement is that you need an account.
So you start by logging in.
And if you are not yet registered
with developers.redhat.com,
you use one of these systems to register
or you create your own account, whatever you want.
So I already have my account,
and I'm going to use it to log in.
And after logging in,
I am able to actually download the software.
So in order to do so, you go to the Products link.
And in the Product links,
you'll find Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as you can see,
there's Download RHEL at no-cost,
and you are just going to use that.
So if you click it, as you can see,
the download starts immediately.
Now it'll always download the latest version.
Now the thing is that
at the moment that we are recording this,
the latest version is 8.5.
By the time you are watching this video,
RHEL 9 is most likely available.
And that is why I'm not going to show you
how to work with Red Hat, but I am going to show you CentOS.
Let's go to centos.org.
So in centos.org, we are going to use CentOS Stream.
CentOS Stream is what Red Hat is using as a foundation
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as discussed before.
And the nice thing about CentOS Stream is
that you get the latest and greatest.
And the cool thing is
that CentOS Stream is already available in version nine,
and that is exactly what I need.
So in order to download CentOS Stream,
you click the link, and then you select CentOS Stream.
And you make sure that you work on the latest version.
As you can see, the latest version is version nine,
and it's already selected here.
Then you select the platform, which is x86_64,
and this is going to download CentOS Stream for you.
CentOS Stream is what I'm going to use here
because CentOS Stream at the moment
that I am recording this is the only software
that reflects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
But by the time you are watching this,
even if you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or Rocky Linux, you'll get the exact same experience
as CentOS Stream.
Now as discussed before,
CentOS Stream is an awesome platform to get access
to the latest and greatest software versions,
but it's not really right for production.
You can consider it kind of a continuous beta
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
So if the final version nine is available,
you better go for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or for Rocky Linux.
Let's talk about Rocky Linux.
So if you look for Rocky Linux,
rockylinux.org is where you go.
And Rocky Linux, as discussed before,
is the completely open-source fork
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Or better, I should say,
Rocky Linux is the fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
where you don't have to share your personal information,
you don't need any license agreement.
You just click on the Download button.
So if you click Download on the latest version,
and again, the latest version
while we are recording here is version eight.
By the time you are watching this,
hopefully, version nine will be available.
You download the latest version, there's x86_64.
And in Rocky Linux,
you can actually choose what you wanna do.
You can select between Minimal and DVD and Boot.
I would say go for DVD
if you have decent internet bandwidth.
It's about 10 gigabytes.
Go for minimal if your internet bandwidth is not that great.
Minimal is the minimal environment,
but if you are going for minimal,
you will need to download the packages
while you are installing.
But the advantage is that you will only download packages
that you are actually going to need.
So depending on what you wanna do,
you use either of these three options.
In the next video,
I am going to show you how to install CentOS Stream.