Learn about Centmin Mod LEMP Stack today
Become a Member

Red Hat no longer releases traditional beta's

Discussion in 'CentOS, Redhat & Oracle Linux News' started by buik, Nov 7, 2024.

  1. buik

    buik “The best traveler is one without a camera.”

    2,026
    524
    113
    Apr 29, 2016
    Flanders
    Ratings:
    +1,674
    Local Time:
    1:57 PM
    Red Hat no longer releases traditional beta's anymore.
    This news has been around for a while. But at least back then I didn't have time to discuss it.

    After Red Hat had previously decided that the source of its Enterprise Linux, will be no longer provided without an active license, nor can't be used without an active license. According to the Red Hat company terms and conditions


    This seems like the next step to make it harder for a third party to make a 1:1 copy, 100% bug-for-bug clone. Since there will be no more betas. Third-party's aready have a backlog when Red Hat reveals its final version.

    Never mind whether or not the source may be used with or without a license. After all, opinions are divided on this case since, as we are talking about open source software. It seems to that this ultimately is going to be lawyer fodder.
     
    Last edited: Nov 7, 2024
  2. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

    54,113
    12,179
    113
    May 24, 2014
    Brisbane, Australia
    Ratings:
    +18,739
    Local Time:
    10:57 PM
    Nginx 1.27.x
    MariaDB 10.x/11.4+
    Interesting times a head. While AlmaLinux is still releasing beta releases of their own point releases at least :)
     
  3. buik

    buik “The best traveler is one without a camera.”

    2,026
    524
    113
    Apr 29, 2016
    Flanders
    Ratings:
    +1,674
    Local Time:
    1:57 PM
    Mah every clone still can, as the CentOS Stream 10 bits and iso's are available Index of /10-stream/BaseOS/x86_64 It is just the same with the RHEL. Rhel sources and ISO's aren't available. But the RHEL beta (=Stream) files are available.