You could even try containerizing it and creating an image to run with Podman if you're feeling really adventurous. Or spin it up on real hardware if you happen to have a vintage 386 hanging around in your garage. You can grab the ISO, all 341MB of it, and try your hand at getting it to boot with your favorite virtualization solution. It's now residing on the Internet Archive in the Community Software collection. Rather than just share with a handful of people, I decided to put it somewhere anybody could find, where it can live for the long haul. Download the Red Hat Linux 0.9 ISO on the Internet Archive But, just in time for Halloween 2021, it has been relocated and is ready to go. For a variety of reasons, including a move, reconnecting with the ISO image took a little longer than one might hope. It was distributed with a spiral-bound book full of documentation and a single CD-ROM.Īfter we wrote about the Halloween release in 2019, I got a number of pings on social media and via email asking for the files or an ISO image.

We talked about this release before on the Red Hat Blog, in a post in 2019. That 0.9 isn't a typo, that's the first publicly distributed release that got the entire Red Hat ball rolling. As a special Halloween treat this year we wanted to provide a download to Red Hat Linux 0.9 (beta).