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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by yencabulator on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @06:46PM (#40138223)
What I've seen people use CentOS for is testing a product intended to run on RHEL. For that, CentOS didn't need a separate community, and bugfixing at a pace different from RHEL would have been actively undesirable.
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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by dralley on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:15PM (#40138929)
For that purpose, RHEL is completely free to begin with
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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by mattl on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:35PM (#40139081)
Yeah RHEL has had a gratis developer license from their website for maybe a decade now?

Before that I would pay $49 a year for it.

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by yencabulator on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @10:53PM (#40139954)
As far as I understand, you still need to connect to the Red Hat license server, and you're limited to 16 machines. That's just stupidly unsuitable for a CI worker pool of hundreds of VMs being created from scratch for every run.
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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by mattl on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @11:11PM (#40140074)
Yeah that’s something they’d want you to pay for.

I totally get why CentOS was useful. I was briefly involved with Rocky when it first was getting started.

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by bonzini on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:06AM (#40142154)
If you do pay for RHEL you can have free non production subscriptions. Of course it's probably suspicious to pay for 1 production and 20000 testing servers, but it's pretty good if you are too small to negotiate an unlimited-machine subscription and you want to use RHEL in production.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/07/06/what-quali...

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by op00to on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:09PM (#40150415)
Not for production purposes.
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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by dralley on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @10:26PM (#40152638)
OP was talking about testing purposes.

But RHEL is free for limited production purposes also, to a maximum of 16 systems.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-introduces-free-rhel-f...

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