We frequently provide no-cost access to RHEL to these groups, but the process isn't as formalized, consistent, accessible, or transparent as we'd like it to be.
This support comes in many forms, but often includes helping open source software projects, foundations, and standards bodies access enterprise technologies for development and testing. We know that we are part of a larger, interdependent ecosystem that we benefit from and which we do our best to foster and support. This isn't a need that revolves solely around making RHEL and other Red Hat solutions supportable in this landscape. Supporting the open-source software ecosystem is a core objective for Red Hat. Jason Brooks, a Red Hat Open Source Program Office Manager explained: RHEL for Open Source Infrastructure to give open source communities, projects, foundations, and other organizations a stable foundation for creating and hosting innovative open-source software.Īnd, of course, you can always just pay for RHEL.CentOS Stream to test applications and workloads against the next release of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform.
Fedora for driving leading-edge development of Linux operating system improvements and enhancements.So where does this leave the Red Hat operating system family for open-source organizations? Currently, it looks like this:
Earlier this year, Red Hat introduced no-cost RHEL for small production workloads and for customer development teams. If your non-profit organization, project, standard body, or foundation is "engaged with open source," you can get a free RHEL subscription via this program.