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This is probably out of scope for this thread, but why does every corporation love to use RHEL? I tried spinning up a RHEL instance but to do some of the most basic actions (using yum) required me to register the instance with "subscription manager" (pay wall).

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You're looking for CentOS (essentially RHEL without the support contract) or Fedora (bleeding edge, also without support) if you don't want to pay money for updates.

We run an Emergency Services communications platform for a State Government on RHEL. Stable and reliable are what we need; our customers require us to run an OS supported by the vendor. On the odd occasion we have needed it, their customer/technical support has been fantastic.

When you buy RHEL you're not buying the software, you're buying a support contract and indemnifcation. RHEL also provides a long-term stable platform.

There's no-cost developer licenses as well that you can use with subscription manager. And, of course, there's also CentOS for free-as-in-beer.

There's also Fedora. Part of what you're doing when you register with your no-cost developer license is tie into our repos of tested, patched, and supported (for paying customers) RPMs and containers. And you get that because you gave us your email and possibly/probably signed up for some newsletters that you can opt out of later.

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