So how do you get RHEL?
Well, supported and paid for instances of RHEL
are offered through redhat.com or the partner ecosystem.
And unsupported developer access to many Red Hat products
is offered through developers.redhat.com.
Developers can run up to 16 instances of RHEL for free.
And to study for RHCSA, you should
use a developer's license.
One free evaluation copy of RHEL can
be obtained from access.redhat.com
as an alternative to the developer's license.
But really, there's no reason to go for the one free version
if you can get 16 as well for free.
Also, be mindful of platform support.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is commonly
used in Intel-based platforms.
And make sure to use the ARM, which is AR64 ISOs,
if you want to create a virtual machine on top of Apple
with silicon CPUs.
Let me show you where you can find this developer version
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
So here we are on developers.redhat.com.
And on developers.redhat.com, you
can get access to your software.
Do make sure that you have a valid developer's account.
As you can see, I'm already logged in.
The developer's account is free.
And you need it, because otherwise, you
don't get access.
So if you want to download Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
you go to the Red Hat product downloads.
There you can find Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
And I would recommend you click more ways to try.
And when you click more ways to try,
you scroll all the way down.
And there you can see all the different downloads.
Now, be mindful, the boot.iso is not a complete ISO.
It's useless for what we are going to do in this course.
So don't use the boot.iso.
What you are going to need is a DVD ISO.
The DVD ISO contains all the packages
that you are going to need to install Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
And depending on the platform that you are using,
you choose either x86-64, that's for Intel-based environments,
or ARC-64, which is for ARM-based environments.
The most commonly used ARM-based environment
is as a virtual machine that is running on macOS.
Don't use the WSL2 image, because WSL
is a limited subset of all that Red Hat Enterprise
Linux has to offer.
So there are only two valid choices here.
And that's the DVD ISO for x86-64 or for ARC-64.
Don't use anything else.