Good to know! But what does RHEL offer being a paid distro over CentOS? Is it just the support and contract stuff, or is there some extra software involved?
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:11 AM Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > Fedora hasn't been the free version of Red Hat in quite some time. > Instead, Fedora is akin to the bleeding edge development version, and > CentOS was the free version (with unlimited installs) of Red Hat. > Going forward, Fedora continues to be bleeding edge, CentOS is the > preview version for the next release of RHEL, and RHEL development > license is the "free" version of RedHat, albeit with only 16 possible > free licenses per organization. > > You can still go with (barf) Oracle Linux to essentially get RHEL for free. > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 9:59 AM Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I work everyday in Debian derived distros, but in my mind Fedora was the > free "version" of RedHat. Now that the "enterprise" RedHat is free the big > question is what can RedHat give you that Fedora or CentOS cannot? What can > be valuable for IT and DevOps is some kind of management tools for managing > some IT infrastructure (servers, desktops, workstations, network equipment, > etc). Maybe also some tooling to help manage upgrades, common installation > scenarios like Apache-MySQL-PHP-Workdrpess and alike. I have to admit I > totally don't know what are the paid features of RedHat, I'm super curious. > > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 2:51 AM Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I've been using Linux nearly exclusively for over 15 years. I use > LinuxMint on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server-side and have always been > quite pleased. I tried CentOS and Red Hat in the past and found them to be > out-of-date and no easier or more reliable than my choices. So my question > is unless you are a corporation that wants to pay big dollars for > specialized support, why would you want to use Red Hat? > >> > >> Blake > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 8:00 PM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> If you missed it, you can legally now deploy RHEL, in production, on > up to 16 systems with the (free) Red Hat Developer Program subscription. > IMO, they should have waited for this to be ready before announcing the > change to CentOS. > >>> > >>> > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel > >>> > >>> Kent > >>> > >>> -- > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > >>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >>> > >>> --- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >>> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC_Ew81QfF3mu6BZU3VazGV_HWGYTsO_%2BR831u%3DZy%3DU%3D2A%40mail.gmail.com > . > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CABwHSOt120qMgE_ryoHV4MBVYtLCAYkdRk6SvOpYTfjHmksmpg%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2BKhHxK2cSyRCezg%3DYei90Ep6-8_G5BO7wt%2B4JKWiY4c5ma-9Q%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcUrJt3jn2KkH_r2DvovGBGU0%3DcJPZ%3DgK32KmiyDbVxjtA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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