• Lucien [he/him]
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    481 month ago

    I’m pretty sure that both Red Hat Enterprise and SUSE Enterprise require a license key.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          I started Linux with a physical copy of redhat 5.2 in 2000.

          I had an old friend who busted his ass to educate me on computers when I was a kid and I will be forever thankful to him.

          • Lucien [he/him]
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            21 month ago

            For me, my first exposure to Linux was around that same time, but with SuSE. It’s still my go-to distro, even though I’ve installed and used dozens of different ones. Compiling Gentoo over a weekend is a fun experience at least once.

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              21 month ago

              I think I used gentoo years ago. Is that the one that builds and downloads as you install? I’m getting old, it’s been years and I remember a distro that was making headlines with something like that years ago.

              My go-to distro for a long time was Mandrake, which became Mandriva. I have no idea what’s going on with that one now.

              I’ve been using SteamOS and EndeavourOS recently.

              • Lucien [he/him]
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                21 month ago

                Yeah, Gentoo builds everything from source. Supposed to make it faster, but I didn’t notice enough of a difference to make it worth my while.

      • Billegh
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        RHEL never did to install it. To get any updates though, you have to provide a contract number.

        Edit: 10 might be different, but I don’t think it would be.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          That’s right, you pay for support not the binaries and the source code is free under GPL.