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https://developers.redhat.com/rhel8?extIdCarryOver=true&sc_cid=701f2000001OH6pAAG - the developer license covers up to 16 production systems.
I use RHEL for free, if I remember correctly you're limited to 16 machines but that's plenty for my needs.
thank you so much...
You can run 16 instance with Dev license. Also if you want to go geek mode you can actually download 20GB srpms iso, then debrand and build it with mock/koji builder.
so can i build "Gapper Linux"?
Yes. But you have to build many srpms to binary rpms and some are dependency to others. And for failed builds you have to figure out why things went wrong. The process is somewhat complex, time consuming, requires knowledge on rpm packaging, resource(CPU,MEM,IO) intensive.
A lot of people are put off by the RHEL licensing, even if it's free for up to 16 systems.
On CentOS/Rocky/Alma, you set up a repository and simply get your updates with yum/dnf. But with RHEL, you have to have your Red Hat subscription configured and up-to-date before you can get any updates. It's another layer of dependency and complication that I don't want to bother with.
I've gone for Rocky for my CentOS 8 systems, but don't see Alma as a poor choice. Both have done good work.
I was thinking about "Lowendtalk Linux" which will be RHEL based. Then I thought fuck! Who is going to finance me to run a box 24/7? LET is mostly Debian fans, will they toast me(ofc I can build a Debian fork too if I put enough time)? I need to constantly build updated srpms too and upload that to my repo. If they want secure boot I need to do shim-signing. How am I going to do that? All I am going to do this for $7 a month!
RHEL. All my DA servers run on RHEL.