Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Academic Editions

Red Hat offers academic editions of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop and Server operating software. Either edition can be purchased as an individual subscription or a campus subscription.

Both academic editions offer the same stability, length of RHN maintenance, and management capabilities as our corporate editions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but they are provided without RHEL technical support. For production and business application usage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, academic institutions are advised to use supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.

Attention international schools: This academic site is for US and Canadian schools only. International schools can purchase our academic editions from your country's Red Hat Education specialist.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Desktop Edition

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Desktop Edition is for single CPU machines. Red Hat Desktop is the newest member of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family. It provides a high-quality, full-featured client system that is suitable for use in a wide range of desktop deployments.

    Productivity applications include:

    Mail - Evolution is a sophisticated mail client that supports IMAP and POP3 mail servers and provides a look-and-feel that will be familiar to Microsoft® Outlook® users.

    Document processing - OpenOffice.org 1.1 is a comprehensive Office Suite, providing a fully integrated set of applications for preparing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It provides exceptional compatibility with Microsoft Office® file formats, allowing easy sharing of files.

    Browsing - Mozilla® is a feature rich, high-performance Web browser.

    Instant messaging - GAIM

    Professional quality fonts - Agfa Monotype

    Integrated third party applications, including:

    • Adobe Acrobat Reader and plugin
    • Macromedia Flash plugin
    • Java (IBM and BEA) and plugin (IBM)
    • Citrix ICA Client
    • Real Player

    Versions available: x86, AMD64, EM64T

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Server Edition

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Server Edition simplifies purchases by allowing access to your choice of WS, ES, or AS through your single subscription. Supported by leading ISV applications. Provides necessary technology for small to large server environments where a computer is providing services to a set of clients.

    Common usages: Small-medium web, file and print configurations, Databases, ERP, CRM, Applications

    Includes: amanda-server, arptables_jf, bind, caching-nameserver, dhcp, freeradius, inews, inn, krb5-server, netdump-server, openldap-servers, pxe, quagga, radvd, rarpd, redhat-config-bind, redhat-config-netboot, tftp-server, tux, vsftpd, ypserv, Apache, Samba, NFS

    Versions available: x86, AMD64, EM64T, Itanium, or POWER(i/p)

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Academic Edition is for server systems and can support systems with greater than 2 CPU's and more than 8GB of memory.