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So, as mant of you know, RedHat has efectively killed CentOS as a free alternative to running RHEL at home. Because of the blowback from that announcement (I’m sure) then have changed their license for developer use to allow up to 16 servers. This developer license is free and you are free to use those servers for whatever.
But how do you get such a thing? Well, head on over to this site and register yourself. Be aware that your user name is your email address you register with. You’ll need that for later. Also, make sure you remember your password, you’ll need that too.
Once all that is taken care of you can hit their downloads section and grab yourself the latest and greatest release of RHEL and do the regular install. Personally I am installing via the command line on KVM, but you could do a GUI install if you like and you can do it not only virtualized but on real hardware!
The install proceeds normally until the reboot wherein it asks you (only one time) for License information. You must accept.
At this point you might think you would be able to do updates but WRONG! You must ALSO register your system. I did this on the command line by doing a “sudo subscription-manager register” and then putting in my user name from above and then my password from above. THEN you will also need to attach your appropriate subscriptions to that registered server. I did this on the command line by doing “sudo subscription-manager attach –auto”. NOW you are able to do your updates on the system “yum -y update”.. Enjoy!!
Oh, and I have comfirmed that this developer registration does indeed work on more than 1 system!