Hello Timothy,
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:39:54 +0100 Timothy Murphy <gayle...@eircom.net> wrote: > I read that Redhat was offering their Linux free, > and downloaded the ISO, though I haven't run it. > > What do CentOS users think of Redhat's offer? > > The registration with Redhat seemed very bureaucratic to me, > and I'm not sure if I have carried it out properly. > Also, I didn't see if it was possible to get updates, > either with dnf or some other way. > > I've been (and am) very pleased with CentOS, > which I've been running for several years, > and I don't particularly want to change. > > Any views on this? Wow, it's not really offered as "free", it's a 30-day evaluation. Try and buy. You won't get support after this is you don't subscribe to their services and I have no idea what will happen if you can updates or whatever, even for non-production uses. Quoting https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/evaluation: ================================== Try Red Hat Enterprise Linux free Evaluate Red Hat Enterprise Linux for your application deployments, datacenter infrastructure or virtual and cloud environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a reliable a secure operating system that you can trust to run your most mission critical workloads. This evaluation: Provides a single subscription for a variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Offers access to Red Hat's award winning Customer Portal, including knowledge, videos, and documentation Is not intended for production use Start your evaluation You will need a Red Hat account to continue. If you are new to Red Hat, you can create an account in the next step. ================================== Regards, -- wwp
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