Last month, when the Red Hat announced the closure of Santos Linux, the enthusiastic and small business Linux created a very intrusive world.
A long-standing tradition – and ambiguity in Red Hat’s posted terms, led users to believe that the Santos 8 would be available until 2029, as it is based on RHEL 8. The early completion of Red Hat’s Santos 8 in 2021 cut it to 10 years eight, with thousands of users stuck.
Santos Stream
Santos Stream’s Red December announcement – which was initially billed as a “replacement” for Santos Linux – left many users confused about its role in the improved Red Hat ecosystem. This week, Red Hat explains the broad stroke as follows:
To summarize: We are creating a collaboration center for Santos Stream RHL, with what the landscape will look like:
- Fedora Linux is the place for major new operating system innovations, ideas and ideas – essentially, this is where the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes in.
Born.- Santos Stream is a continuously distributed platform that becomes the next secondary version of RHEL.
- RHEL is an intelligent operating operating system for workloads manufactured in almost every industry in the world, ranging from deployment of cloud scale in mission-critical data centers to the remote edges of public clouds and enterprise networks.
Although the Santos flow may be considered appropriate and perfectly adequate for enthusiasts and domestic laborers, the lack of a long, well-defined life cycle has made the product inappropriate for most product consumption and, in particular, by stores opting for RHEL-compatible delivery. In the first place.
New cost free, low cost and easy RHL access
By February 1, 2021, Red Hat will make RHEL available free of charge for small product workloads – defined as “small” 16 systems or less. For a cost-free product, this access is through RHEL’s new Extended Red Hat Developer subscription program, and it comes with no strings attached – in Red Hat’s words, “this is not a sales program, and no sales representative will follow.”
The Red Hat team, as well as individual users, is also expanding the availability of developer subscriptions. Going forward, subscribing to RHEL customers can add full dev teams to any developer developer subscription program. This allows the entire team to use Red Hat Cloud Access for easy configuration and maintenance of RHL on well-known cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Given the previous public outcry over the early demise of the Santos 8, we approached Reddit for clarification on availability guarantees – in particular, no guarantee that free small-product use terms would be valid for the length of general support. The RHEL version they cover. After some deliberation, the official answer was:
A Red Hat subscription gives you access to all available versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux except extended support. This cryptocurrency accesses all related documents, support, services, patches, etc. as the subscription expires, so it’s important to think about subscriptions separately from the platform.
The Red Hat Developer Program is not a fly-by-night or fast-paced program; It came into existence in early 2015 with multi-system deployment in early 2001. The big change today is that there may now be far fewer production systems included under individual subscriptions, but the program itself is tried and true. We never removed anything from the program, just added to it, published by today’s announcement.
The individual developer subscription is currently set as a one-year subscription. Renewals will be as simple a process as clicking a button. We have no intention of ending this program and we are determined to make it sustainable. We continue to provide it to users who wish to use RHEL in it. The main reason we need a subscription term is because it is legally difficult to offer unlimited terms globally and as new laws come into force, for example GDPR, we need to be able to update the terms and conditions. . This is similar to how our customers purchase Red Hat subscriptions for fixed terms for fixed terms.
Our goal is to keep the usage cases of small users as a core part of the Red Hat Developer Program and to help bring individual user subscriptions to enterprise-grade Linux for more users.
