The free-tier is limited. RedHat is not completely free, but free for small use cases (I think 16 instances per account). In the past, CentOS was the free/unsupported variant of RHEL, while Fedora was the test bed for new and exciting stuff the _might_ make it into the RHEL distro at some point.
The change to allow _some_ use of RHEL without subscription fees is part of the response to RedHat/IBM changing the model for CentOS (which will no longer mimic RHEL, but will be the short-term test bed for RHEL). For companies/individuals who wanted to work with RHEL, but couldn't because subscription prices made that impossible, CentOS *was* the option -- now free instances of RHEL are that option. AFAIK, Fedora will continue to be very bleeding edge, while CentOS (next year) will become the leading release for RHEL. On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:59 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 out-of-date and no easier or more reliable than my choices.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. 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