Redhat 在上个月宣布 CentOS Linux 8 会在 2021 年 12 月终止, 那时只可以转用 CentOS Stream 继续更新。当然 CentOS 用户 (包括我) 及开源社群对这抉定有很大反应。现在 Redhat 宣布有新的选项可以继续免费使用 RHEL, 原本 RHEL developer 订阅用户只可以在开环境进行测试, 现在可以在工作环境使用, 而每个帐号可以在最多 16 个系统使用。
New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL:
The Individual Developer subscription for RHEL can be used in production for up to 16 systems. That’s exactly what it sounds like: for small production use cases, this is no-cost, self-supported RHEL. You need only to sign in with a free Red Hat account to download RHEL and receive updates. Nothing else is required. This isn’t a sales program, and no sales representative will follow up. An option will exist within the subscription to easily upgrade to full support, but that’s up to you.
You can also use the expanded Red Hat Developer program to run RHEL on major public clouds including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. You have to pay only the usual hosting fees charged by your provider of choice; the operating system is free for both development and small production workloads.
这个举动对于主机数量较少的使用者很有帮助, 最起码不用急切升级系统, 但对于长远升级而言, 我认为转用用 Rocky Linux, Debian 或 Ubuntu 会是更佳选择, 因为现在也不肯定这个免费举动是否一个过过渡方案, 会维持多久也说不准, 可能过两、三年便会收回.