[CentOS-devel] First round of RHEL programs announced

Simon Matter

simon.matter at invoca.ch
Thu Jan 21 14:49:39 UTC 2021


> Am 21.01.21 um 12:04 schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic:
>> 2. It is not clear if only server variants are allowed or if RHEL
>> Workstation variant will be able to register under Individual Developer
>> license. I use CentOS 8 on my laptop and have Apache + MySQL +
>> PostgreSQL installed although rarely used. What variant
>> Workstation/Server should be installed in such case and will there be
>> any limits what can be installed if one is chosen instead of the other
>> (I never installed RHEL aside from initial beta releases and will have
>> to research this first)? CentOS has all the packages from all the RHEL
>> variants accessible in single variant.
>
> I had the same question and found this:
>
> https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux#
>
> Q/A 14.
>
> "Note that subscriptions are for a specific variant, such as desktop,
> workstation, or server. The no-cost subscription is for Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux Server, which is a superset of the other editions."

I'm also wondering about the support cycle. Do the no-cost subscriptions
have the same length as the paid subscriptions? That's the whole 10 years
for EL7 or EL8?

Simon



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