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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by gymbeaux on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:32PM (#36437515)
That I can’t run sudo yum update out of the box with RHEL is one of the big reasons I don’t bother with it. I love the “stability aspect” of RHEL but I love the I guess “convenience” of any other distro being ready to go out of the box, no activation required
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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by freedomben on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:40PM (#36437618)
I totally agree. Even when I worked at Red Hat and could get whatever licenses I needed, I still used CentOS for local stuff and for testing things because of the friction of the registration/activation process. It has gotten easier in recent years, but simply existing is enough to turn off a lot of people.
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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by ilc on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:27PM (#36438434)
"Me too" - Ex Red Hat. Development is done on Fedora and CentOS. I was pissed when they changed CentOS mainly because it changed my workflow.
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Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? by m4rtink on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:13PM (#36439862)
Since RHEL 8.2 its at least possible to register at installation time.
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