Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program With No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux (betanews.com) 50
An anonymous reader shares a report on BetaNews: Red Hat -- fresh from celebrating a historic $2 billion in annual revenue -- releases a developer-focused gift to the world. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite is totally free, including an RHEL license and valuable developer tools, like the JBoss Middleware portfolio. This is through the Red Hat Developer Program. If you want to take advantage of this amazing offer, you can sign up through the company's website Red Hat seems a bit late to the party. Many argue that the company should've made its update-only subscription for individuals free from the beginning -- especially considering it isn't a major source of revenue for the company. Exciting time for developers, nonetheless.
Today... (Score:3)
Today, it's hard to tell what to believe. Given the nature of the day, and all... Hmm... Is RedHat doing that? I'll have to play with that one - if it's true. I'll go clicking the links tomorrow. :/
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Best ... prank ... ever.
Re: Today... (Score:1)
The one about Microsoft releasing Ubuntu for Windows this week was pretty funny. It had a lot of people fooled and trumps any lame Red Hat prank.
Not a joke (Score:2)
The one about Microsoft releasing Ubuntu for Windows this week was pretty funny. It had a lot of people fooled and trumps any lame Red Hat prank.
What makes you think that was a joke? They did a full session about it at build, complete with realtime demos and a discussion of the way the file system was implemented.
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I think the OP's point is that truth is stranger than fiction.
Five years ago when Ballmer was running the joint, helping out a competitor running Linux would have signalled that hell had frozen over. MS might still be the great Satan but a lot has pleasantly changed under Nadella.
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I will admit it is hard to tell - this year's /. april fool's tricks certainly are way better than any previous year's tricks...
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I really don't have a clue, yet. I've not clicked on the URL and will wait until tomorrow - I put it into my tomorrow's email so that I remember it. See, I want to believe... I'd love to get more experience with RedHat.
The last time I used the official RedHat was back when I was able to buy it in a box at BestBuy or Staples or something like that. It was sometime around 1995 and the price was somewhere around 1995 for the boxed version. I think it was floppies but that might have been the boxed version of S
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They sent out the announcement last night (still March). I signed in and downloaded a copy - the ISO is the standard RHEL-7.x-Server iso file. When you install it you register it with RHN, which is where the developer stuff makes a slight difference. And I'll be honest with them too and use it for a dev system (though I would love to run official Red Hat on my laptop. I just like the logos and such....)
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Yeah, I've just got to spin it up in the VM and I'm golden - I think.
I'll be VERY interested in using this again. Yes, I know Fedora and CentOS exist. However, RedHat's the biggest. Maybe not in distros installed but certainly the biggest in revenue for a distro. I've not used it since way back when. It was actually a paid version back then. Who'd have guessed? ;-)
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I'm having trouble caring either way. CentOS is basically RHEL without the logos, and it's been free for years now.
Hell... at this point, I think that CentOS is even more popular than Red Hat with the various cloud hosting providers because they don't have to pay any licensing fees.
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Why am I suddenly picturing a bunch of Linux geeks in black satin jackets and a red Huggy Bear hats?
Just me then?
Re:LOL ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Are you getting paid by the Red Hat?
Duh bro, that's why it says "Slashvertisment," what do you think?
WellSpan Health attack vector irony (Score:2)
Isn't JBoss the attack vector in which WellSpan was attacked and held hostage?
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Isn't JBoss the attack vector in which WellSpan was attacked and held hostage?
Of course it is written in Java
Linux, for free? (Score:1)
The hell you say!
Re:Linux, for free? (Score:4, Funny)
errrrrrr
Re:Too late (Score:4, Funny)
> I stopped giving a fuck about Red Crap
> I'm very happy with my current distro which isn't a Debian or a Debian derivative.
Calm down Gentoo, it's ok. You have a smooth face, and everyone loves you.
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I don't love them.
You know what happens if you don't 'emerge world' a Gentoo system often enough? You can not physically update it, emerge becomes completely broken if the versions of software you have installed do not show up in the portage package list. It simply can't cope with that scenario. That was when I abandoned Gentoo.
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Gentoo suffers from some of the same problems as Red Hat, i.e. dropping support for legacy, i.e. what customers actually use, and going all gung ho on new features that only a few use.
Gentoo is better in that you can avoid systemd, but on the flip side, they won't support things that people use like nis, xdmcp, x font servers or prelink. Heck, they even drop support for LTS kernels while still supported upstreams, so they can't even blame that.
Finding something to support legacy systems on these days is di
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Considering that Red Hat has a release and support cycle, vs Gentoo just being rolling release, they are quite different.
For legacy systems, RHEL 6 or even RHEL 5 (still suppported!) would be much better picks then 7. Also - RHEL 6 still works with XDMCP, I cannot speak for 7 (haven't tried it). Do people still use NIS?
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prelink? even i remember doing ricer shit like that on gentoo years ago
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/P... [gentoo.org]
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prelink? even i remember doing ricer shit like that on gentoo years ago
That's the problem - it's not ricer stuff, but useful in environments where you have short-lived processes and latency is more of a problem than speed.
Like compile servers, where gcc/cc1/cpp and friends are called millions of times. Every millisecond shaved off each invocation builds up. Especially on NUMA systems, where you don't want expensive relocations between memory groups when the tasks are not going to stick around for long enough to weigh up for that inconvenience.
And for embedded, where memory
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Just curious, did you *think* before you wrote that? Because redhat is definiately NOT bleeding edge or dropping support for anything while a major release is supported....
RHEL6 has entered the second phase of support, which means it won't get new software, and won't get updated software unless there are severe bugs or security fixes that can only be fixed with newer versions. Fair enough; I'd switch to RHEL7 for the machines where I need newer software. Except that Red Hat in RHEL7 has dropped support for a lot of packages [redhat.com] that are still very much in use.
Re:I dont care about JBoss or Containers (Score:4, Insightful)
You realize RedHat owns CentOS. They bought them out a few years ago.
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You may want to try whois centos.org .... ...
Registrant Name: Red Hat, Inc.
Registrant Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
Registrant Street: 100 East Davie Street
Registrant City: Raleigh
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https://www.centos.org/legal/t... [centos.org]
The CentOS Marks are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. (âoeRed Hatâ).
That said, the source code is open and CentOS remains a "community project". RedHat could certainly legally close the doors of CentOS and the community could just reassemble under a different name.
Reacting to Microsoft (Score:1)
I'm assuming this was done in reaction to Microsoft's recent announcements about integrating linux userland into Windows10 in an attempt to attract developers.
Seems legit (Score:2)
Article is COMPLETELY WRONG (Score:1)
https://developers.redhat.com/... [redhat.com] : (emphasis added)
" By participating in the Program and accepting these terms, you represent that you will be using the Red Hat Subscriptions(s) for development purposes only, and Red Hat is relying on your representation as a condition of our provi
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So? Oracle and Microsoft's developer versions have the same sort of restrictions.
taHdeR (Score:1)
Why run RHEL instead of CentOS? (Score:3)
If I'm an experienced admin, why would I want to run RHEL instead of just using CentOS?
What do I get besides support that I probably don't need and a bunch of out of date RPMs?
Is there a signifigant difference (Score:2)
between developing on Redhat and developing on Centos? Hell, throw in Scientific Linux in there too, for yucks. It's rebranded RHEL too, isn't it?