Let me ask about Alma Linux. It's supposedly a CentOS replacement. On Fri, Aug 19, 2022, 10:03 AM Tilghman Lesher <tilgh...@meg.abyt.es> wrote:
> That's not beyond the license terms. They say that you can use the > developer license on up to 16 machines, which include "small > production servers". They don't exactly specify what "small" means in > this regard: > > "The use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux have been expanded in the > Red Hat Developer Subscription for Individuals. The Red Hat Developer > Subscription for Individuals is a single subscription, which allows > the user to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a maximum of 16 > systems, physical or virtual, regardless of system facts and size. > Those 16 nodes may be used by the individual developer for demos, > prototyping, QA, small production uses, and cloud access." > > The frustrating part is that they require you to re-register your > system once a year, and if you don't, updates fail with a cryptic > message. > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:11 AM Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > > > > Brian, > > > > My application involves production servers; beyond the license terms of > > the developer subscription. The subscription fee is only part of the > > total cost. The operational hoops of working with subscriptions are > > excessive. > > > > Count me as one who has lost all respect for RedHat and what they did > > with CentOS. I am not naive; I know how RedHat and IBM operate. The > > squeeze of small software developers is on and RedHat is leading the way. > > > > Howard > > > > On 8/19/22 08:04, Brian H. Ward wrote: > > > FWIW, you can get a developer subscription for free. It's good for > > > setting up a handful of (3, maybe) machines. > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 3:59 AM Howard Coles Jr. <dhcol...@gmail.com > > > <mailto:dhcol...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > There's a reason I call Red Hat Microsoft Jr. > > > > > > RHEL has to be registered through rhsm to their site or a local > > > Satellite server. > > > > > > subscription-manger status will show you if that was successful. or > > > not. (And, since you're getting the 403 forbidden I'd say it's not > > > registered) > > > > > > if you have subs, and an account with them, it's easy peasy, but > if not > > > you're better off going with a clone. > > > > > > > > > On 8/18/22 17:01, Howard White wrote: > > > > My problem does not originate with Rocky but with the upstream > > > > provider, RedHat. Have done a preliminary install of RL8.6 and > > > > finally remembered how to get networking to run by default; why > > > > RedHat, why? Now, I cannot curl or dnf (which uses curl) due to > > > > certificate silliness. > > > > > > > > I have chased a number of suggestions but am still thwarted. > If I > > > > don't get a curl 60 error, I get a 403 Forbidden error. > > > > > > > > Anybody else been down this rat hole? > > > > > > > > Howard > > > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 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 nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcUHb1ZmjRU%2BtJuYgP4L18MnN2pBo9T8sh8%2BWDM7%2BbqLkg%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 nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXYz0M%2BVXPOsMQrcqW_jHFEJ4Penm%2BjLF8Oc_X7XM-3Z7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
