Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 is now officially available to Red Hat customers as stable, building off the RHEL9 beta available since the end of last year. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ships with a wealth of updated software components and derived from CentOS Stream. On the versioning front, RHEL9 has GCC 11 as the default system compiler, Python 3.9, RPM 4.16, PHP 8.0, updated LLVM / Rust / Go compilers, a plethora of optimizations, OpenSSL 3, Ruby 3.0, and much more to enjoy with this major release for enterprise Linux users. Linux 5.14 is the kernel in use by RHEL 9.0 albeit with various kernel back-ports.
There will be several community alternatives based on RHEL 9.0 soon enough, too, so if you want to run something RHEL like without all the corporate support, there’s enough options, too.
I have tried their “free” subscription offering. They actually give a 365 days subscription for basic server components. However just being able to download an ISO is a chore, and you need to go though hoops to install it properly.
To make things worse, it did not work on my system. I then moved back to Ubuntu. Even though, CentOS was my primary for a very long time, and I wanted to stay on that platform.
This is the program if you are interested:
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux
Just run AlmaLinux or one of the other CentOS replacements instead.
Rocky Linux, if someone has to run something besides CentOS.
RHEL now has a no-cost developer subscription that allows for up to 16 installations. Very simple to use. Just create a redhat account, login, download the ISO. Install and then register using subscription-manager, takes all of about 30 seconds. There is no 365 day limit on the developer subscription, you can run 16 VMs as long as you want. No “hoops” to install it properly.
I do not know why are you so against RHEL, but you are giving wrong information here.
1. What are basic server components for you? There is nothing basic in this offering. You get full RHEL experience with self-service support. Exactly the same as with Ubuntu and most others distributions.
2. You click on Products and RHEL on the next page and you get a link for download. Yes, you need to login to download, but you are getting a lot for free. How hard is that to understand?
3. Why is it so hard for you to install? RHEL is one of the easiest distributions to be installed and it supports text and GUI. More details here would give others more idea what went wrong.
4. Why it did not work on your system? Again missing important info which make this liook like a blank statement.
Considering you were using CentOS before I find it mildly unusual that whole experience would suddenly be totally different for you.
tomaz,
I am not against Redhat, and not trying to give wrong information. I am just sharing my anecdote, which might not apply to everyone. And things might have even changed today.
1. Yes, they give the RHEL distribution. I was looking at extras. For example, Ubuntu will give you MAAS or their container system as a free version. But the one I looked at on Redhat offerings was not part of this program, or at least did not seem so.
2. I logged in to my account. And then had to navigate a maze of screens. Yes, today, I checked, there is now a better link. But then, my dev subscription has expired, and they ask me to subscribe again. (It has been over a year)
3. It is a hardware compatibility issue. It is not about being hard, I have used Linux since very early days, but I need something practical, if I want to do this for fun, I would go with Gentoo.
4. Again, new hardware, new compatibility problems. Unfortunately since last few years, I actually get worse experience with Linux GPU drivers than before.
The difference is not about the OS experience, but rather about getting it to run. Redhat or any other alternative has “one shot” to convince me.
That would be Foreman or Red Hat Satellite, as it’s know in the RH products.
https://www.theforeman.org/
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite
That would be OKD or Red Hat OpenShift.
https://www.okd.io/
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift
Honestly, you would be better off running the upstream stuff instead of the RH stuff, if you don’t want to pay RH. CentOS Stream, Fedora, Foreman, OKD, etc.
Yeah, the RH site is a byzantine maze. I’m well versed in the RH ecosystem, and I still spend 30 minutes trying to find my way around that site.
Fedora is a better workstation distro.
Flatland_Spider,
I have heard good things about the Foreman. I might give it another try. Thanks.
I think at this point, redhat is not worth the hassle for me. But since new CentOS alternatives are coming up, it is not a completely lost cause.
It’s not the spoon fed single step at a time like Ubuntu, and Anaconda can be tricky, especially the storage, if people don’t know the secret tricks.
With that said, the Suse installer is the worst. Yes, worse then the Arch wiki based installer or Gentoo.
Red Hat Linux 9, just released ?
Looks like someone is 19 years late !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux#Version_history
Oh, right, you mean RHEL, the penultimate step in the building of Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux !
Good to know someone is keeping track of what happens before we get to the finished product, I tend to forget about all the gory details. 😉
RHL always conjures up memories of v4.2-v7 days for me before Fedora. RPM hell we used to joke. Back when we ran Gentoo before the memes lol. We did run Centos on SuperMicros for a decade before outsourcing the whole shebang. I have full respect and appreciation for RHL and their contributions to “the cause”, even if I choose to run and support something else.
Just run CentOS Stream. XD
People aren’t getting anything of value out of the clones, and it remains to be seen if they’ll be better, or if they’ll exist in 2 years.