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

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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Today...

[KGIII]

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. :/

Re:Today...

[msmash]

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

Re:Today...

[KGIII]

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.)

Re:Today...

[armanox]

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....)

Re:LOL ...

[phantomfive]

Are you getting paid by the Red Hat?

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

Re:Linux, for free?

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

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


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

Re:Too late

[cfalcon]

> 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.

Re:I dont care about JBoss or Containers

[MindStalker]

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

Why run RHEL instead of CentOS?

[h4ck7h3p14n37]

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?

Re:Too late

[armanox]

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?