Red Hat expands no-cost RHEL options

Posted Jan 21, 2021 2:27 UTC (Thu) by jeleinweber (subscriber, #8326)
Parent article: Red Hat expands no-cost RHEL options

While the change from Centos to Centos stream can be a problem for some classic Centos users, for existing Redhat customers it can be an improvement. Unlike Ubuntu, Redhat betas don't upgrade to production releases. Having test systems on Centos-stream is less work for evaluating new point releases than spinning up a continuing sequence of fresh VM's. Since Redhat is now rebasing a lot of applications with feature upgrades in point releases, including major infrastructure like SSSD, evaluating the betas actually matters to those of us with any level of cross-platform integration to worry about.

The combination of centos-stream and 16x bigger developer subscriptions looks pretty appealing.

Red Hat expands no-cost RHEL options

Posted Jan 21, 2021 12:34 UTC (Thu) by efitton (guest, #93063) [Link] (2 responses)

It would have made a whole lot of sense to announce both this and the Centos change at the same time. Unless this is a reaction to the blow back? Anyhow, good news.

And I realize this does not cover every Centos use case. Still seems like a positive change.

Red Hat expands no-cost RHEL options

Posted Jan 21, 2021 21:08 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

It's not a reaction. The CentOS announcement mentioned that there would be RHEL changes in 2021. This one is the first and there are others planned down the line.

Red Hat expands no-cost RHEL options

Posted Jan 24, 2021 21:59 UTC (Sun) by mmrezaie (guest, #95563) [Link]

I would like to know how do you know? And, Why the lack of transparency? I am not alone in this, and we are very confused since at university we have way more than 16 machines using CentOS. Frankly, there are other places like us (compute intensive centers) where using Debian has been less of a hassle, but I am not a decider and I know it is mostly because of infiniband device drivers why we are stuck to some specific version of CentOS.