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Hello,
I just signed up for the JBoss Developer Studio Portfolio Edition and wanted to comment that this experience has been less than ideal. I signed up for the program to take a look at Red Hat's JBoss offerings with BRMS. The package offers a copy of RHEL Workstation with developer tools, but that download is not exactly easy to find and I am not even sure if I did find it.
JBoss Studio wasn't too easy to find either. The channels for downloads and the JBoss interface were rather different and slightly confusing. I am sure this isn't horrific for most experience Linux developers, but coming form a Windows IT background, the Red Hat offerings here seem rather primitive to TechNet and MSDN.
Anyway, I am still eager to explore Red Hat and see what it has to offer for our business rules and other development, but I wish this experience was a little more straight foward.
Steve
Hey Steve,
I'm struggling with the Jboss set for almost 2 months now and still haven't found all pieces of the 'all in one' package. I'm using Linux for the past 10 years and am a certified professional for about 3 years but I feel as clueless as you right now.
This is how far I get;
I started out by downloading RHEL5 but there was no way to get this installed on my workstation.
Then I did some Googling and found out that others in the same situation installed RHEL6. I asked the helpdesk if I could do that and they told me I could register one system with the licence. The RHEL version I registered would become the version your license sticks to.
I installed RHEL6 server since that's the only RHEL6 that shows up in my download section but when I try to register it the JBOSS license does not show up and I'm not able to continue (unless I select the RHEL6 trial I have in there too).
Think I give support one more try.... I'll let you know if I have any luck.
Arjan,
Glad to see I am not alone. I was able to get RHEL 6 onto a test laptop, but now my Red Hat Login doesn't work and I don't really understand how to register the workstation or why I even have to...
Anyway, the struggle contiunes, but I am 6 hours into looking at Red Hat's offerings and it's spent just trying to download and install their enviroment, haven't spent one mintue looking at the product. To say the least this has been disapointing.
Steve
Steve, it isn't something that is specific to Linux - I started as a Windows developer way back and moved to *nix about 10 years ago (AIX, then HP-UX). I'm looking at porting our HP-UX app to Linux and we'd been thinking that Redhat would be the right distro.
I'm not entirely sure that's going to be the case. The OS looks fine - I downloaded a demo copy a bit over a month ago and have been happily putzing away, porting various parts over and things have been going fairly well. This week my demo license expired so I figured buying a developer's subscription would be the way to go so I forked over my credit card number.
Well, I haven't been able to figure out what this nifty license I bought is actually good for. On the subscription screen it shows that I should have a license available for 1 physical server and unlimited virtual servers. My server refuses to acknowledge that I have a license and all the activation screens I can find tell me that I need to buy a license.
I'm not sure what I just bought, but it isn't getting me anywhere and I've now wasted far more time on this than I should have to. I'll submit a support ticket but I'm thinking I'll just go with Ubuntu and not have to deal with this kind of crap. As you pointed out, Microsoft doesn't make you jump through hoops like this. With my TechNet subscription I can very easily get developer copies of nearly anything they offer.
The Redhat developer experience so far has felt like less than a warm welcome and if I get one more reference to a whoop-de-do PDF brochure about getting started I may just scream.
Hi Chris,
Sorry to hear about your experience thus far.
At least you can be confident your comments here are not falling on deaf ears. If you want, post your support case number here and I will chase it up and work out what's going on.
It should definitely be a straightforward process so if it's not we need to address it quickly.
Keep giving us feedback here and through opening support cases when appropriate, we do listen!
Cheers,
Brad
Chris, I'm sorry you're having trouble registering your machine to Red Hat Network. Feel free to file a support ticket - that's what the subscription includes. Also, having the Developer subscription gives you access to developer tools not offered in the base RHEL subscription, such as updated compilers. Please don't give up yet! We'd like to ensure we get you going.
Andrius.
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