If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Red Hat should be flattered. Less than two weeks after the company introduced RHEL 5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5), StartCom Ltd. released the first RHEL 5 clone, StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0.

StartCom announced on its website that it was launching "a release candidate of our upcoming StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0 codenamed 'Kishuf.' We invite anybody interested to install this test release and help us find eventual problems in this distribution prior to its official release."

Of course if you go with a cloned RHEL, while you get the code goodies, you don't get Red Hat's support.

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