Episode 121a - Finding software to learn on

Welcome to Episode 121 Main Topic

How do I get a hold of expensive software, for the purposes
of learning?

Check with your school, a LOT of vendors have super-cheap
solutions for education.  Your school may be able to
provide you a learning license/sub for software you are
interested in



Less than Legal alternatives



Red hat enterprise linux

Red Hat Developer Sub


https://developers.redhat.com/articles/getting-red-hat-developer-subscription-what-rhel-users-need-know# 

Centos literally feeds RHEL, Centos stream is an
extremely similar platform.

Fedora feeds Centos,



Ubuntu

Ubuntu Server is free, but you can buy support from
Canonical



Windows Server

Try it on azure’s free tier

Windows server will run for some time without
activation

Talk to a partner about a trial


https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/


https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ 




https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial 





Red Hat Openshift


https://developers.redhat.com/openshift/hosting-openshift



Trial, ask your account rep

OKD is the upstream for Openshift

OpenShift Online has a free tier





First, are you a student? 

What if i Just CANNOT find a demo?

Operating Systems

VM/Container platforms





 


Vmware vsphere

https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html




https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7
.



Vmware has a surprising number of public trials/demos,
and even labs, here:

Or just stand-alone esxi? 





Industry Software

Included with most RHEL subs, but not the dev
sub.  

Trials are available. 

The Katello project is the open source upstream



Oracle DB

Their site seems to steer you toward an account rep,
or their cloud.

I believe that oracle will operate without a license,
but I do not know that they have an official trial





Red Hat Satellite

Oracle



SaaS and Cloud

Aws

AWS Free Tier


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial 

Also, amazon linux is pretty similar to
RHEL… 





Google compute

https://cloud.google.com/compute/ 

You get a $300 credit to get hooked.





Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/ 

Effectively a 30 day trial, you get $200 to use
for 30 days





Digital ocean

https://try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/ 

Currently a 60 day/$100 trial





Linode

$100 trial credit

Rotating list of promotions:
https://www.linode.com/promotions/



Github

Free for all, as far as I know

Enterprise: (includes a free trial link)



https://github.com/enterprise



 


 


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