Red Hat to Offer RHEL Free to Small Developer Teams

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Red Hat is giving away Red Hat Enterprise Linux for free for small production environments. The organization is doing this after it decided last month to stop working on CentOS 8. Developers can now use RHEL on 16 machines.

RHEL, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is free to use from February 1 through the Red Hat Developer program, the organization writes. This can only be used for small teams, although they can be larger than before. From now on, an Individual Developer subscriber can use not just one, but a maximum of sixteen systems. This makes RHEL suitable for use in small productions, Red Hat writes. The company also says that the program is not intended to sell more software later.

With the more extensive RHEL program, developers can also deploy their own applications to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. It will also be possible for paying RHEL customers to add their entire developer team to the program at no additional cost.

Red Hat is taking the step after the controversy that started last month. Then the company said it would stop developing CentOS, a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Users were angry about that, because Red Hat had always told them that CentOS would last until 2029.

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