Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production and development teams

Sort-of. 16 licenses it seems, and they're tied to your developer account, so you would have to log in to download the ISO I guess? I'm not entirely sure how it works with the cloud instances though—they say you can run it on AWS, etc., but do you have to tie in some sort of subscription manager from those running instances back to your account?

In any case, if it's more complicated than clicking a button once (e.g. if I'd have to automate any subscription stuff to get it going), I'm just going to drop RHEL-based distros as a target and move on. CentOS was fine because it behaved like all the other distros (no subscriptions, no authentication requirements), and so I provided some level of RHEL support ('as long as it works on CentOS') for my projects.

Good faith question: Is there any reason to use RHEL on the server for a small startup team? The ecosystem around Debian and its derivatives seems much more user-friendly and robust. What are the upsides of CentOS?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846391

machinecontrol - your comment is dead.

If you're building a product for American businesses, you should target RHEL. So it makes sense to make it easier for people to build against it.