On 2/2/21 5:10 PM, R C wrote:
On 2/2/21 4:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 03:49:35PM -0700, R C wrote:
This is what I read today, might have been around longer though,
don't know.
"New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to
access RHEL"
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
It came out a few weeks ago but the program is live as of yesterday.
In short:
1. Register at https://developers.redhat.com/register
2. You'll now see a developer subscription allowing up to 16 systems
listed
at https://access.redhat.com/management/subscriptions
3. Download and install from
https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download
4. sudo subscription-manager register --username $USERNAME
(where $USERNAME is the email address you registered with)
and there you go.
It says "Developer Subscription" but the new terms allow each
individual to
have up to 16 systems for production use. See the (single page) terms
here:
I would not use it for production, or commercial purposes, just so I
have the same at home (or close) as at work. I wonder, does that mean
you can have up to 16 licensed servers/workstations running at a time?
Or over time, when you discard equipment, and need to install another
machine/desktop, whatever by the time you're at 17 start paying?
When I was thinking similar situation over - with different kind of
proprietary product free up to some number... my sentiment ended up
being: OK, I plan all my future well, and fit all into that restricted
number, let's say 16. But what if at some point they change their mind
and this number suddenly becomes 12. I definitely can not plan what in
the future they will do. And specifically recent events showed that they
do change things.
And the I went free open source route. And never regretted.
But it is everybody's individual decision, and those who make it will
have only themselves to blame if ever get into trouble as the result.
Incidentally, I for one blame myself that I have to change my routine
from CentOS [to Debian]. Not that that is much of a hassle. This is not
the first migration in my life, and hopefully not the last one ;-) -
meaning long life for myself, not short life for Debian.
Valeri
(I am checking that with a redhat rep that we have at work too).
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/tnc/viewterms/72ce03fd-1564-41f3-9707-a09747625585?extIdCarryOver=true&sc_cid=701f2000001Css0AAC
It may also be of interest to note something which I hadn't realized
before:
this subscription includes the "EUS" offering which provides security
updates to select minor releases (so you can "pin" to that minor
release),
which is something CentOS never did.
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