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The sad part is the short nearsightedness. I know tons of RHEL engineers who only got into RHEL because they could essentially learn large parts of RHEL for fre
by tcmart14 3y ago
The sad part is the short nearsightedness. I know tons of RHEL engineers who only got into RHEL because they could essentially learn large parts of RHEL for free on CentOS and then go on to work professionally on RHEL. I also understand that a lot of courses to become official RHEL engineers/sysadmins use CentOS for the classes.
- hhhfgshanda828 3y agoThis is not true. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is currently available at no charge to students and non-commercial users for the use cases you mentioned. And it has always been available in that manner. It even comes with additional (paid if used commercially) red hat products on top of the OS itself. I have a tough time believing they didn't know that considering red hat basically advertises training on the free version of RHEL. They want you to pay to take the RHCSA, which costs much more than anybody would realistically spend on a personal OS for learning. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux#general https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
- freedomben 3y agoThe "free" RHEL licenses still require dicking around with subscription manager, and creating/maintaining a Red Hat account. It may not be much overhead if you already have paid RHEL instances, but for somebody who doesn't it's a stumbling block. I think it's great that Red Hat offers free dev subs and I applaud that, but I think they underestimate the friction that creates.