
Basically, you’ll have to select a language, keyboard layout, configure the mouse, and choose between three pre-defined installation types. This version uses the Anaconda graphical installer, which was initially intended for novice users who wanted to effortlessly install the operating system. It is also possible to rescue a broken system, disable hardware probing, test the integrity of the installation media, add specific drivers, use a different screen resolution, learn more about how to force your video card to work with Red Hat Linux, as well as to add extra boot parameters from the boot menu. The distribution’s boot prompt is used only as an information screen for new users, letting them know that they can install or upgrade the OS in graphical mode by pressing the Enter key, or via text mode by typing “linux text” and hitting Enter.

It is distributed as six CD-size ISO images writable to blank CDs and used only for installing the operating system on a local disk drive. Distributed as installable-only ISO imagesĮven if the project was discontinued more than a decade ago, in the year 2003, it’s still downloaded by users through our humble website. Red Hat Linux 9 is an open source Linux distribution, the last version of the award winning operating system before the project was splitted into the free Fedora Linux project and the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product.


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