Red Hat is also expanding the availability of developer subscriptions to teams, as well as individual users. This access to no-cost production RHEL is by way of the newly expanded Red Hat Developer Subscription program, and it comes with no strings-in Red Hat's words, "this isn't a sales program, and no sales representative will follow up." New no-cost, low-cost, and simplified RHEL accessĪs of February 1, 2021, Red Hat will make RHEL available at no cost for small-production workloads-with "small" defined as 16 systems or fewer.
To summarize: we're making CentOS Stream the collaboration hub for RHEL, with the landscape looking like this: This week, Red Hat clarifies the broad strokes as follows: Red Hat's December announcement of CentOS Stream-which it initially billed as a "replacement" for CentOS Linux-left many users confused about its role in the updated Red Hat ecosystem.
Red Hat's early termination of CentOS 8 in 2021 cut eight of those 10 years away, leaving thousands of users stranded. Long-standing tradition-and ambiguity in Red Hat's posted terms-led users to believe that CentOS 8 would be available until 2029, just like the RHEL 8 it was based on. Further Reading CentOS Linux is dead-and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when it announced the discontinuation of CentOS Linux.