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Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program With No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the red-hat-is-in-the-house dept.

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.

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  1. Today... by KGIII · · Score: 2

    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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    1. Re:Today... by msmash · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's real. We aren't posting prank stories, for the record.

    2. Re: Today... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    3. Re:Today... by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      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. :/

      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...

    4. Re:Today... by KGIII · · Score: 2

      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 Slackware that I bought. Then again, they both might have been floppies. I have no idea.

      At any rate, it sucked. I had it dual booted and then I went on to Mandrake as my dual boot - until they went to Mandriva. Then I stuck with them for quite a while and now I'm not dual booting but I just use Lubuntu (more often than not) as my sole OS.

      I went on a binge where I tried them all... No, I mean *all* of them. (No, not really quite all.) I tried almost every single one that was on DistroWatch. I tried a bunch that are not on DistroWatch. I tried them on bare metal. I tried them in VMs. Hell, I still have VM images of all sorts of them that can be spun up - all the way from my house here in Florida back in Maine where they physically exist.

      Out of all of those, I went with Mint for a short spell (still have it installed on one laptop that I have with me) and Lubuntu just kind of kept being what I kept using so now I use that instead of just using a Live USB - except I use a Live USB quite often. Some with persistent data and some without.

      At any rate, I'd love to play with RedHat again. I've played with Fedora and I've played with CentOS. I kind of liked Fedora but I wanted an official Ubuntu flavor so that I could *easily and consistently* access the ecosystem - which is huge. But, it has to have been nearly 20 years since I've used RedHat. I have quite a number of servers at home AND I'll be physically home soon(ish) so the idea is intriguing to me (and I'd like to sign up for the newsletter).

      So, tomorrow, I'll click the link and see what they have to say. I'm not believing a damned thing today. What company would release anything important, that is not emergency related, on the 1st of April? So, I'll wait until tomorrow and, it just so happens, I'm getting back into programming as of late and I'm pretty sure that will put me into the developer classification without my needing to be dishonest about it.

      I could always buy a copy of RedHat but I don't believe they actually sell anything that's meant for a single user who's gonna run it on a couple of servers in a "server room" that's just a room in his basement. I'd donate for it. I don't mind donating but I'm rather unlikely to buy it. Hell, in time, I'll probably donate more than they'd have asked for as a purchase price. I donate to help operating systems that I don't even use. :/ (I donate to Qubes on a semi-regular basis. It probably won't be useful to me before I die.)

      But, I'll take a developer copy. Hell yeah... I'll even develop on it. It probably won't be anything good that I make but I'll give the source away. If you want a copy of my poorly running robot's source code, I'll let ya have it - but you've gotta help me fix it. (A plague I'd wish on nobody.)

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    5. Re:Today... by armanox · · Score: 2

      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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    6. Re:Today... by KGIII · · Score: 1

      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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  2. WellSpan Health attack vector irony by scorp1us · · Score: 1

    Isn't JBoss the attack vector in which WellSpan was attacked and held hostage?

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    1. Re:WellSpan Health attack vector irony by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1

      Isn't JBoss the attack vector in which WellSpan was attacked and held hostage?

      Of course it is written in Java

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  3. Re:LOL ... by Flavianoep · · Score: 1

    Today, enrolling in Red Hat Learning Subscription comes with a free black jacket... Why not a red hat?

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  4. Re:LOL ... by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you getting paid by the Red Hat?

    Duh bro, that's why it says "Slashvertisment," what do you think?

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  5. Re:Is this real or an april fools joke? by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

    Seriously speaking , this is not an April fools joke . Red Hat is . .. seriously ....

  6. Re:LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

    Why am I suddenly picturing a bunch of Linux geeks in black satin jackets and a red Huggy Bear hats?

    Just me then?

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  7. Re:Linux, for free? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 3, Funny

    YAY! systemd for EVERYBODY!!! For FREE!!!!!


    errrrrrr ..... wait .....

  8. Re:Too late by cfalcon · · Score: 3, 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.

  9. Re:I dont care about JBoss or Containers by MindStalker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You realize RedHat owns CentOS. They bought them out a few years ago.

  10. Not a joke by Etherwalk · · 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.

    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.

    1. Re:Not a joke by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 1

      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.

  11. Seems legit by tom229 · · Score: 1

    Downloading now. Now I get to look extra stupid if the ISO boots to a splash screen saying April Fools.

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  12. Article is COMPLETELY WRONG by skavoovie5 · · Score: 1

    Red Hat can't make it any clearer than they have -- you must agree to the Developers Terms & Conditions to download or use the RHEL instance, and it is not for usage as a standard system -- development purposes only.

    https://developers.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 providing you access to the Subscription(s). If you use the Red Hat Subscriptions for any other purposes, you are in violation of Red Hat’s Enterprise Agreement set forth below and are required to pay the applicable subscription fees, in addition to any and all other remedies available to Red Hat under applicable law. Examples of such violations include, but are not limited to,

    using the services provided under the Program for a production installation,

    offering support services to third parties, or

    complementing or supplementing third party support services with services received under the Program."

    1. Re:Article is COMPLETELY WRONG by armanox · · Score: 1

      So? Oracle and Microsoft's developer versions have the same sort of restrictions.

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  13. Re:I dont care about JBoss or Containers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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 ...

  14. Why run RHEL instead of CentOS? by h4ck7h3p14n37 · · Score: 2

    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?

  15. Re:Too late by rahvin112 · · Score: 1

    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.

  16. Re:Too late by arth1 · · Score: 1

    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 difficult. RHEL6 might still be the best bet.

  17. Re:Is this real or an april fools joke? by supremebob · · Score: 1

    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.

  18. Re:Too late by armanox · · Score: 2

    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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  19. Re:Too late by coolsnowmen · · Score: 1

    prelink? even i remember doing ricer shit like that on gentoo years ago

    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/P...

  20. Is there a signifigant difference by RLiegh · · Score: 1

    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?

  21. Re:Too late by arth1 · · Score: 1

    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 and cpu both are at a premium, and tasks are run as one-shot, and everything gets unloaded as fast as possible.

    prelink is not a good idea for laptops or dmz, where you want to reduce attack vectors. Then PIE and randomization is preferable. But there is no one size fits all, and what both Gentoo and Red Hat 7+ keeps forgetting is that there are different use scenarios, and some of those don't fit what the gum chewing modern coders experience. Linux used to be about choice, but now choices are disappearing.

  22. Re:Too late by arth1 · · Score: 1

    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 that are still very much in use.

  23. Re:I dont care about JBoss or Containers by MindStalker · · Score: 1

    https://www.centos.org/legal/t...
    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.