make is in the make package, part of the "Development Tools" group which you should install before attempting to build anything.

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The GNU make utility, commonly abbreviated make, is a tool for controlling the generation of executables from source files. make automatically determines which parts of a complex program have changed and need to be recompiled.
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The GNU Make utility, commonly abbreviated as Make, is a tool for controlling the generation of executables from source files. Make automatically determines which parts of a complex program have changed and need to be recompiled.
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April 3, 2024 -

As some people may know, for a while now, the mighty Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been made available completely for free for production use on up to 16 machines, physical or virtual… No matter if it’s for server, workstation or simple desktop use.

But in your opinion, why did Red Hat do it? To discourage people from using Rocky or Alma?

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I can only speculate but it is likely to make up for moving CentOS upstream of RHEL. The reason people decided to pay for RHEL was sometimes because they wanted the support, but most often purchasing RHEL license was a requirement for a application, contract, or hardware they are running. Redhat works with ISVs, storage vendors, and others to get RHEL on as officially supported operating system. If you purchase a big SAN or want commercial support for a application stack or SQL database then you have to run it on certified hardware and/or with certified drivers and/or on a certified OS, etc etc. If you were try to run it on Debian then you are on your own. Also sometimes governments or other industries have requirements that must be met. Like FIPS. RHEL supports that stuff so it is possible to run Linux in places were otherwise you can't. However this causes problems when customers try to do funny business... like purchasing one license, but then running CentOS on dozens of machines. So when something goes wrong they try to swap out the CentOS for RHEL (or whatever) on that one system to try to get support. So this move was likely because Redhat want to cut down on such shenanigans and get smaller businesses using RHEL, while making it easier for their ISVs. So when smaller businesses become bigger then they are more likely to start paying for services.
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Because RedHat isn't making money off of me, some person using it at their house, they're making their money from me, the person in the company with a contract because we need commercial-level support at our commercial-level corporation.
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The System and Arch are optional added filters, for example System could be "redhat", "redhat-7.2", "mandrake" or "gnome", Arch could be "i386" or "src", etc. depending on your system. This is the GNU variant of make(1).
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