On 1/30/20 10:08 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
On 1/24/20 8:02 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
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The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I put in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login to see the solution.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=+Problem+1%...
Other than that you could create a login on the redhat site and register as a developer (free of charge) and have access to some of their online resources including the access knowledgebase.
I am mostly a CentOS user, and installed redhat 8 so I could start working on my applications before CentOS 8 was released.
Nataraj
I have a free subscription, but still can't get to the solution page. Oh well.
I've never really understood how hiding those solutions behind a wall is a good thing in/for the OpenSource world. Looks like I'm not alone :-)
A good thing is the ability for someone to be able to pay people actual money so that CentOS can actually exist. There is no CentOS (or Scientfic Linux or Oracle Linux) without RHEL. There is no RHEL if Red Hat can not make money.
And there is no RedHat if thousands of developers would not allow RedHat to consume their work for free. Creators of free software didn't build walls around their projects. Do you thinks it's a good thing that RedHat does exactly this with their tip and tricks (KB)? I believe it can damage RedHat because a lot of people at the source of RedHats products don't appreciate it at all.
But you are not talking about access to source code here .. you are taking about access to a paid support website for customers for knowledge base articles.
The Source Code .. heck, even Binary rpms, exist and were installed in this case .. completely for free from CentOS Linux. What is being complained about is no access to documentation for paid customers to fix issues with RHEL .. not to fix something in CentOS Linux. This list and wiki.centos.org and forums.centos.org are where the CentOS Community can develop open source, free documentation for these issues for CentOS Linux.
Red Hat certainly understands open source .. as shown by this:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3253948/who-really-contributes-to-open-sou... (github commits)
and this:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Git-Stats-EOY2... (kernel commits)
The same holds true for any number of important projects .. gcc, etc.
I love open source .. that is why I have been doing CentOS binaries since 2004. I totally believe in open source. It has. in fact, taken over the world of Information Technology much to my delight.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes