No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available

The developer program agreement forbids you from using this for test or production installations [1]:<p>&quot;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 fee&quot;<p>1 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.redhat.com&#x2F;terms-and-conditions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.redhat.com&#x2F;terms-and-conditions&#x2F;</a>

On the SUSE side, you can get OpenSUSE Leap which is a clone of all of our SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) packages that are kept up to date with SLE. It also has a bunch of community-maintained free software packages not available in SLE. And yes, it&#x27;s all free as in speech and beer. And no EULA.

EULAs on Linux, while MS goes MIT, all in a day. Interesting times indeed.

I think this is RH finally realizing why Ubuntu Server has surpassed them in the cloud. It&#x27;s because develop &amp; test on the same OS. Its also the reason why CentOS was popular in the first place.<p>This coupled with faster but unsupported software version updates should put but back on track to compete in the cloud.

Does this give access to the Red Hat support website? Some of the notes on bugs&#x2F;workarounds there are useful, but subscriber only.

Over the last few days at Build, Red Hat had been making a big deal about &quot;loving .NET.&quot; I wonder if this move is driven entirely by the desire to be the go-to destination for .NET Core on Linux.<p>EDIT: I saw this announced by Red Hat during a .NET session and they were giving out flash drives with the image.

I am curious, what does this give you over CentOS, I thought the idea of CentOS was that it was RHEL with different support and branding?

I have never totally understood the difference between redhat server, desktop and workstation. This program grants access to redhat server. Does this mean that you can not use this to develop something for Gnome? The way I understand the differences between the variants in order to do Gnome development you would need to use Workstation, which is Desktop plus development tools.

If you cant fight with free but unsupported, be free and unsupported. :) I was expecting this for quite some time.

What does this mean for red hat and the ecosystem of linux distros (eli5)?

This almost looks like RH catching up to MS. Sad.