In terms of the paid version, yes, the main thing is the support contract. Something I learned some time ago is that, in the business world, having a fix is less important to executives than to have someone to blame for when problems arise. Red Hat takes the blame if anything breaks. That's helpful to IT employees in the organization who would otherwise bear the brunt of management's ire.
CentOS, going forward, no longer has a lengthy support period. It's about a year or so, which is considerably worse than Ubuntu LTS. I'm really not sure who the market for CentOS is, other than potentially software partners who want to test their software on the preview release of RHEL, so that they're ready to go when the next version is released. CentOS is likely to see *massive* shrinkage in their installbase past 2024, when support for CentOS 7 expires. If you want the long term support of RHEL, you either get a support contract and use a paid license or use the development license, or you switch to something like Oracle Linux, which will track RHEL's changes. On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:13 AM Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > 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%2BKhHxJvBGd88Sf-qit2GxKUuQ1f7W4Hu8-hxzpOckQ0brOFpA%40mail.gmail.com. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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