arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-20 Thread Serguei Mokhov
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers Thoughts? -- Serguei Mokhov

Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:12 AM Serguei Mokhov wrote: > > arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers > > Thoughts? > > -- > Serguei Mokhov

Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-20 Thread Yasha Karant
NB: "We" below refers to the Arstechnica persons. The solution below seems to be at no cost, but will not address a university, CERN, Fermilab, etc., multiple copy deployment as this exceeds the IBM RH "no fee" limit. Presumably there is some mechanism to prevent no fee use of the deployable

Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:49 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:12 AM Serguei Mokhov wrote: > > > > arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers > > > > Thoughts? Someone noticed that almost *no one* wants RHEL 8, an

Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-21 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> From the Arstechnica URL: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arstechnica.com_gadgets_2021_01_centos-2Dis-2Dgone-2Dbut-2Drhel-2Dis-2Dnow-2Dfree-2Dfor-2Dup-2Dto-2D16-2Dproduction-2Dservers_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIp

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone-but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-21 Thread Queen, Steven Z. (GSFC-5910)
Scientific Linux users worldwide Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone-but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers" > From the Arstechnica URL: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone-but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-21 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 07:04:14PM +, Queen, Steven Z. (GSFC-5910) wrote: > > Appropriately, it was IBM that invented FUD as a sales-technique in the first > place. > Alarming that IBM FUD is working against IBM. Decline of the mighty. Boeing airplanes only fly down, NASA rockets cannot go

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone-but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-21 Thread Queen, Steven Z. (GSFC-5910)
EL is now free for up to 16 production servers" On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 07:04:14PM +, Queen, Steven Z. (GSFC-5910) wrote: > > Appropriately, it was IBM that invented FUD as a sales-technique in the first > place. > Alarming that IBM FUD is working against IBM. Decline