RHEL Download Subscription Free
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Is RHEL available for use without a subscription? I can see the Evaluation Download page but nothing seems to be free.
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@larsen161 said in RHEL Download Subscription Free:
Is RHEL available for use without a subscription? I can see the Evaluation Download page but nothing seems to be free.
Not sure (I'm more in the Debian corner), but isn't CentOS the "free version" of RHEL?
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@larsen161 said in RHEL Download Subscription Free:
Is RHEL available for use without a subscription? I can see the Evaluation Download page but nothing seems to be free.
Yes, the free version of RHEL is called CentOS.
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https://mangolassi.it/topic/7832/overview-of-the-red-hat-linux-ecosystem
TL;DR...
Fedora is the testing platform for RHEL. Fedora is "frozen" at one (or more) points and turned into a RHEL version. CentOS and RHEL are released basically simultaneously from the same sources, both from Red Hat officially. Red Hat makes all three (Fedora, RHEL and CentOS). Fedora is free and the bleeding edge "testing" environment for RHEL/CentOS. RHEL and CentOS only vary in support. One is supported, one is free. (And they vary is obviously trivial differences like they change the branding.)
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@aaronstuder said in RHEL Download Subscription Free:
http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/
But from just looking at the URL, I would say this is meant for developers - not for a production system.
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@thwr that is correct. I assumed this was for non-production use. (You know what they say about assuming)
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@thwr said in RHEL Download Subscription Free:
@aaronstuder said in RHEL Download Subscription Free:
http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/
But from just looking at the URL, I would say this is meant for developers - not for a production system.
How does one define production versus non-production for a developer? If you are writing any code, it's a production development system, right?
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@scottalanmiller Good point, but at least a developer license isn't meant to run your infrastructure (long-term)
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What I love about the Free Subscription, is you can run unlimited non-production VM's
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@aaronstuder said in RHEL Download Subscription Free:
What I love about the Free Subscription, is you can run unlimited non-production VM's
Well, I'm in the Debian and Gentoo corner, so that's not an issue at all for me
I could get support from Canonical or some 3rd party company, but I didn't need that in the past, erm, 10-15 years. You can solve next to everything if you have an idea what's going on - or more precisely: how to diagnose a problem.
