[TriLUG] Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[Maxwell Spangler via TriLUG]

On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 11:42 +0000, Israel J Pattison wrote:
> Would this be considered a continuation of last month’s announcement
> concerning Centos 8 and Centos Stream? Folks seemed to be dropping
> Centos like a hot rock, and new projects in the model of the pre-
> IBM/Red Hat Centos seemed to pop up overnight. This announcement
> would seem to be a move to stop the hemorrhaging by sweetening the
> deal for anyone who used Centos in production. 
> 

I don't know what source you have for 'folks seem to be dropping CentOS
like a hot rock'.

My take on CentOS is that it's what people like me use when they want
to use RHEL but didn't want to pay a costly license for it, so it was
natural to use CentOS.

And most CentOS users are likely looking for stability for a desktop or
server, not distro hopping to chase shiny new GUI bells and whistles.

All this makes me think that those people who liked the stability of
CentOS were looking for somewhere else to turn, but not racing to get
there. It's not easy to stop using one server configuration and move to
another: lots of adjustment, new learning, re-testing, etc.

I think this is definitely follow-up for the recent CentOS streams
announcements and I have no sources to identify if it is proactive and
scheduled or reactionary.

It's exceptionally good for people like me who use RHEL based distros
for work (RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux) and want to continue to do so.
 Aligning systems at home with systems at work lets one focus on what
they learn and leverage problems solved at home and at work.

Maxwell


> > On Jan 21, 2021, at 00:11, Maxwell Spangler via TriLUG
> > <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Bravo Bravo Bravo!
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
> > 
> > No-cost RHEL for small production workloads
> > 
> > "We’re addressing this by expanding the terms of the Red Hat
> > Developer
> > program so that the Individual Developer subscription for RHEL can
> > be
> > used in production for up to 16 systems.  That’s exactly what it
> > sounds
> > like: for small production use cases, this is no-cost, self-
> > supported
> > RHEL. You need only to sign in with a free Red Hat account (or via
> > single sign-on through GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, and other
> > accounts)
> > to download RHEL and receive updates. Nothing else is required.
> > This
> > isn’t a sales program and no sales representative will follow up.
> > An
> > option will exist within the subscription to easily upgrade to full
> > support, but that’s up to you."
> > 
> > I ran Red Hat Linux (RHL) from 1996 to 2003 and then switched to
> > Fedora.  Looks like I'll be switching back for my home systems.
> > 
> > I used Red Hat Enterprise Linux last week for a consulting project
> > and
> > used the developer program's 1 user license.   Setting up an
> > account is
> > easy and 'subscription-manager register' and 'subscription-manager
> > attach' to gain access to official repos was a breeze.
> > 
> > Very delighted with this news from Red Hat.
> > 
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Maxwell Spangler
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