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I find Redhat jumped the shark when it started selling its distribution with different licensing options that let you use different number of CPU cores.

nine_k 4y ago
I kept thinking that Red Hat's Linux offerings are properly FOSS, and the stuff you buy is support contracts. What are some per-CPU offers from them? (Because that's what I'd expect from Oracle, and hardly from RH.)
- snuxoll 4y ago
  Per-core licensing is more or less limited to JBoss stuff and the likes. Stuff like RHEL, OpenShift Enterprise, etc. is typically licensed by socket-pair.
1letterunixname 4y ago
Almost no corporations pay for RHEL in any meaningful quantity. It's corp IT who pays for support and subscriptions, not production webops. Cell phone manufacturers and social media companies run collectively around 100M CentOS servers that I know if directly.
- ungamedplayer 4y ago
  This is so anecdotal it hurts.
- aftbit 4y ago
  Perhaps this is why RedHat is declaring CentOS end-of-life: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red-hat-enterprise-linux https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red...
  - bonzini 4y ago
    Partly it is, but there wasn't much hope to convert those to RHEL. The plan was: 1) to offload the production of the releases (effectively what is now Alma Linux). Because there's so much use of CentOS, it was pretty much a given that somebody would pick up the slack. Most of those companies weren't running stock CentOS anymore, they had their own downstream repositories 2) to give more insight into the making of RHEL minor release to CentOS SIGs and to companies that run CentOS derivatives Facebook for example does not use the RHEL kernel and was one of the early adopters of CentOS Stream even before CentOS Linux 8 was terminated.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    NB CentOS was given the EoL date in 2020[0] There is a difference between CentOS and CentOS Stream https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
  - IceWreck 4y ago
    I know of companies with millions of servers that switched to CentOS stream instead.
    - bonzini 4y ago
      Yes if you have millions of servers you would be using Katello (open source Satellite) anyway and then you only have advantages from CentOS Stream.

nine_k 4y ago

I kept thinking that Red Hat's Linux offerings are properly FOSS, and the stuff you buy is support contracts. What are some per-CPU offers from them? (Because that's what I'd expect from Oracle, and hardly from RH.)

snuxoll 4y ago
Per-core licensing is more or less limited to JBoss stuff and the likes. Stuff like RHEL, OpenShift Enterprise, etc. is typically licensed by socket-pair.

1letterunixname 4y ago

Almost no corporations pay for RHEL in any meaningful quantity. It's corp IT who pays for support and subscriptions, not production webops. Cell phone manufacturers and social media companies run collectively around 100M CentOS servers that I know if directly.

ungamedplayer 4y ago
This is so anecdotal it hurts.
aftbit 4y ago
Perhaps this is why RedHat is declaring CentOS end-of-life: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red-hat-enterprise-linux https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red...
- bonzini 4y ago
  Partly it is, but there wasn't much hope to convert those to RHEL. The plan was: 1) to offload the production of the releases (effectively what is now Alma Linux). Because there's so much use of CentOS, it was pretty much a given that somebody would pick up the slack. Most of those companies weren't running stock CentOS anymore, they had their own downstream repositories 2) to give more insight into the making of RHEL minor release to CentOS SIGs and to companies that run CentOS derivatives Facebook for example does not use the RHEL kernel and was one of the early adopters of CentOS Stream even before CentOS Linux 8 was terminated.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  NB CentOS was given the EoL date in 2020[0] There is a difference between CentOS and CentOS Stream https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
- IceWreck 4y ago
  I know of companies with millions of servers that switched to CentOS stream instead.
  - bonzini 4y ago
    Yes if you have millions of servers you would be using Katello (open source Satellite) anyway and then you only have advantages from CentOS Stream.