[Info-vax] The VSI Hobbyist program is Live!

[John E. Malmberg]

On 7/29/2020 7:50 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/29/2020 7:19 AM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> Is actual RHEL downloadable for free?
>> Not as such, as far as I know. Rebranded/debranded variants, maybe.
> 
> Yes. CentOS.

And Scientific Linux, and a few other distros.

>> That may or may not change following RedHat's takeover by IBM.
> 
> It really can't change.
> 
> Either Redhat/IBM continue to make the CentOS builds or somebody
> else will do it. Redhat/IBM can't prevent that due to the
> licenses.

The presence of at least one build being available is probably needed to 
prove that the GPL software is compliant with GPL requirements.

It looks like CentOS does not get all of the bugfixes that RHEL makes 
available to their paying customers.

Regards,
-John