On Mon, April 4, 2016 8:53 am, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 04/04/2016 08:39 AM, Timothy Murphy 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? >> >> The registration with Redhat seemed very bureaucratic to me, >> and I'm not sure if I have carried it out properly. >> Also, I didn't see if it was possible to get updates, >> either with dnf or some other way. >> >> 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? >> > > You need read the usage license. > > That subscription can only be used in development and not in a > production environment. When I think about it I have a strange feeling. To be (become) a developer of something that you yourself will not be able to use in production... it's akin volunteer to become a slave. Is there anybody who _can_ make a sense of such offer? Valeri > > If that works for want you want to use it for then it is an awesome move > by Red Hat. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++