RHEL is free for up to 16 instances for individuals not working in a team. This is frequently ignored, but it says so crystal clear, black on white, on the developer program terms page: https://developers.redhat.com/terms-and-conditions
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But really, it doesn't look like you're in the market for it. Some solutions welcome slow releases - many users will list that as a benefit. Even more these days with containerised apps.
Recompile src-files and exchange a branding is not really what i call "competition"
>I want successful Debian
Debian IS successful.
>But really, it doesn't look like you're in the market for it. Some solutions welcome slow releases
That's not what is said nor meant, if for example RHEL 8.2 was released it took CentOS sometimes up to 6 month to release their 8.2 counterpart, in the meantime the newest patch (let's say for OracleDB) is just compatible/certified for 8.2, but you sit for 6 month on a centos 8.1.
But maybe your not in the market of having the latest patch for 3rd party software.
Is this a real scenario? Can you point to a product officially compatible with CentOS, with a patch released only for rhel 8.2 and ignoring CentOS 8.1?
>Minimum supported versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2: 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 or later
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2...
>product officially compatible with CentOS,
Ehh, that's the point of CentOS being the same as RHEL...bug for bug
> but "compatible with RHEL" is not the same as "compatible with RHEL and distributions that claim compatibility with it".
That was the promise of CentOS 100% compatible with RHEL bug for bug.
Why? CentOS was already a terrible choice, artificially slow release compared to RHEL, now you can choose from:
-OracleLinux (pretty good..and no i don't like oracle itself...but the Wallpaper is extremely beautiful..UEK is cool too)
-RHEL (free for up to 16 instances)
-That new one with A
-That Chinese one with the UNIX certification
.....and so on