[Chester LUG] Red Hat free for developers

[Les Pritchard]

I certainly wouldn't recommend using it for any production systems. CentOS
is definitely the way to go for that if you're not willing to hand over
lots of money!

Where this could be useful is for development work. If you're developing
software to be run in the enterprise then the odds are it will be run on
RedHat in a lot of places. So being able to develop / test on the same
distro would really help. Clearly one of RedHat's motives is to encourage
people to target their distro for software. Very much like Microsoft, who
give away copies of Windows Server to students and provide lots of
discounted developer licenses for their OSes.

Les

On 3 October 2017 at 08:11, Chris Nolan via Chester <
chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> I've been aware of this for a while and use CentOS extensively. Any
> suggestions why one would use this and not just use CentOS?
>
> I'm not there will be any hidden costs but RedHat do have a very efficient
> marketing team so expect to be hounded by them and their solution partners
> once they have your contact details!
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 02/10/2017 21:36, stuart--- via Chester wrote:
>
> Interesting. I did know they had this. Be careful though as everything
> comes with a cost where RHEL. Wonder if it comes with the extra repos that
> contain the good stuff.
>
> On 2 Oct 2017, at 21:17, Les Pritchard via Chester <
> chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download/?sc_
> cid=701f2000000tgXRAAY
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