& 8.8 too
RHEL 8.8 has come out this week too, I know, Alma told me their 8.8 clone was ready for download.
Red Hat has released version 9.2 of its enterprise Linux distro, which is free for existing customers with current contracts. As usual, there are a load of recompiled rebuilds to choose from as well. RHEL 9.2 is the latest biannual update to IBM's enterprise Linux distribution. It's a minor point upgrade, bringing various …
...the SUSE Linux Enterprise version has always been downloadable without any argybargy. The idea that a version of Linux is downloadable "free to existing customers" has always struck me as being a bit odd.
Similarly regarding the general absence of comments about such practice.
and all of my Linux systems are now running Alma 9.1. I'll do the 9.2 upgrade in the next week or so. I'm not in any rush at the moment.
One issue that is more important to me is upgrading PHP from 7.4 to 8.1/8.2. References to 7.4 seem to be everywhere. Those issues are not the fault of the core OS.
I might just pull the plug and wipe the system clean, install 9.2 and PHP 8.2 and be done with it.
I have scripts that do all the work in setting up a WordPress server.