On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hi, As things stand, you can signup for a Red Hat Developer Subscription for free to get full access to all Red Hat products as a developer. Yes, you cannot deploy Red Hat products in production with this subscription but anything you develop on it can be put into a production system which has a valid production grade Red Hat Subscription which has been paid for. -- *Mohammed Zeeshan Ahmed, * B.E Computer Science Engineering Certified IT & Cloud Architect & RHCSA +919986458839 Bengaluru, India https://mohammedzee1000.wordpress.com/ <http://mohammed-zeeshan.strikingly.com>