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     Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/