On 5 April 2016 at 13:31, Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole@gmail.com wrote:
On 2016-04-04, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
I read that Redhat was offering their Linux free, and downloaded the ISO, though I haven't run it.
What do CentOS users think of Redhat's offer?
I think it's an excellent opportunity for developers, and for the simply curious.
The registration with Redhat seemed very bureaucratic to me, and I'm not sure if I have carried it out properly.
You should receive an email confirmation from Red Hat. In my case it only arrived after I had entered my RH account details when installing the new OS. That could just be a coincidence, of course.
Also, I didn't see if it was possible to get updates, either with dnf or some other way.
Updates are available through yum in the normal way. Dnf is available in the EPEL 7 repository.
I wouldn't use dnf from EPEL though ;)
I've been (and am) very pleased with CentOS, which I've been running for several years, and I don't particularly want to change.
Any views on this?
One thing that struck me is that the (free) developer subscription is valid for only one year. It is not clear whether the subscription can be freely renewed thereafter. I wouldn't advocate a full migration just yet!
The $99 sub is per year, this is just a free version of that and RH have no way (nor would it be sensible for them to) create an unlimited life subscription on their systems/platform.
How long they'll keep this programme? Well that's crystal ball time and I guess depends on the uptake and how this helps with their developers conferences.
It's not like they lock you in with proprietary tech though ...