Red Hat will support your RHEL forever now - for a price
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- You can run RHEL now for as long as you're willing to sign up for annual contracts.
- This plan provides critical security patches, urgent bug fixes, and 24x7 technical support.
- There is no standard price. You'll need to negotiate with Red Hat for your specific case.
Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, enterprise Linux distributors offered 3 to 5 years of support. Then, starting in the 2020s, Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical, the top Linux companies, started offering up to a decade or more of support. Now, Red Hat is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Long-Life Add-On, aka "RHEL Forever." It does exactly what it says: it offers support for any particular version of RHEL so long as you're willing to pay the bill.
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