[lug] Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[Davide Del Vento]

And Bravo to you for sharing!

Do you plan to run it for your desktop too? If so, please report what you
find in user friendliness for that purpose.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 5:07 PM Maxwell Spangler <lists at maxwellspangler.com>
wrote:

> Bravo Bravo Bravo!
>
>
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
>
> *No-cost RHEL for small production workloads*
>
> *"*We’re addressing this by expanding the terms of the Red Hat Developer
> program so that the *Individual* *Developer subscription for RHEL can be
> used in production for up to 16 systems.*  That’s exactly what it sounds
> like: for small production use cases, this is no-cost, self-supported RHEL.
> You need only to sign in with a free Red Hat account (or via single sign-on
> through GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, and other accounts) to download RHEL and
> receive updates. Nothing else is required. This isn’t a sales program and
> no sales representative will follow up. An option will exist within the
> subscription to easily upgrade to full support, but that’s up to you."
>
> I ran Red Hat Linux (RHL) from 1996 to 2003 and then switched to Fedora.
> Looks like I'll be switching back for my home systems.
>
> I used Red Hat Enterprise Linux last week for a consulting project and
> used the developer program's 1 user license.   Setting up an account is
> easy and 'subscription-manager register' and 'subscription-manager attach'
> to gain access to official repos was a breeze.
>
> Very delighted with this news from Red Hat.
>
> --
>
> Maxwell Spangler
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