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Changes to CentOS: What CentOS Stream means for developers

Bob Davis

Today Chris Wright, vice president and CTO at Red Hat, published a post describing how CentOS is changing and the opportunities it opens for developers in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ecosystem. The net effect of this change is that, in addition to CentOS Linux 8, there is a new version of CentOS—CentOS Stream—which will provide a “rolling preview” of future Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernels and features. This is being announced in addition to the release of the...

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Why you should be developing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Bob Davis

Red Hat Enterprise Linux through Red Hat Developer is designed specifically so that software can be developed on the same platform to which it will be deployed—and here’s why it’s the best option for you. No-cost developer access With a $0 Red Hat Developer membership, you get access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at no cost. We have downloads available for RHEL versions starting as far back as 7.2, and as current as RHEL 8.1 Beta. The subscription costs...

.NET Core
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Announcing .NET Core 2.2 for Red Hat Platforms

Bob Davis

We are very excited to announce the general availability of .NET Core 2.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift platforms! This general availability is in lock-step with Microsoft's release yesterday. .NET Core is the open-source, cross-platform .NET platform for building microservices. .NET Core is designed to provide the best performance at scale for applications that use microservices and containers. Libraries can be shared with other .NET platforms, such as .NET Framework (Windows) and Xamarin (mobile applications). With .NET Core...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Support Lifecycle for Clang/LLVM, Go, and Rust

Bob Davis

Red Hat has recently released Clang/LLVM, Go, and Rust as General Availability. This article covers the support lifecycle and release cadence for these compilers.