Re:I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
by tcmart14 on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:35PM
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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 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.
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Re:I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
by freedomben on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:48PM
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The "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.
One guy? The sentiment of CentOS users being freeloaders is shared by a lot of people, inside and outside of IBM.
I remember when the original announcement came out that CentOS was being killed in favour of CentOS Stream. Lots of IBM (Red Hat) employees were defending the change by painting CentOS users as getting a paid product for free. Lots of people here on Hacker News and Reddit and other places were defending it as well.
Don't try to rewrite history.