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> People who use CentOS want a boring Linux distro like RHEL. They just don't want to pay for RHEL subscriptions. I use CentOS a lot for prototyping projects d
by ilovetux 6y ago
> People who use CentOS want a boring Linux distro like RHEL. They just don't want to pay for RHEL subscriptions.
I use CentOS a lot for prototyping projects destined to be put on RHEL servers. I like it as a try-before-you-buy version of RHEL, and this change makes that use case a lot less useful.
- vbezhenar 6y agoI think that your use-case matches perfectly with RHEL free developer license.
- jsiepkes 6y agoThe free RHEL development license doesn't allow for even a whim of something that could be considered production usage. So you can't make a proof of concept with the RHEL developer license in which you let "the business", customers, etc. toy around for a while.
- acomjean 6y agoA group of us was sent to Red Hat for a kernel class (week long, excellent) over 10 years ago. We were moving off HP-UX which offered really excellent real time extensions (disabling interups on a per cpu basis...processor sets, and other fun) The instructor told us if we wanted to try some of the things we were doing in class to experiment more, we could try it on CentOS. it was the practically the same. This was before Red Hat “ acquired” them.