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In 2002 Red Hat began releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on Red Hat Linux, but with a much more conservative release cycle and a subscription based support program. A year later, Red Hat discontinued the Red Hat Linux product line, merging it with the Fedora community packages and releasing the resulting Fedora distribution for free.
Box cover shot of Red Hat Linux 5.2 Red Hat 5.0 CDROMs. Release dates were drawn from announcements on comp.os.linux.announce. Version names are chosen as to be cognitively related to the prior release, yet not related in the same way as the release before that. [4] [16] The Fedora and Red Hat Projects were merged on September 22, 2003. [17]
CentOS Stream is a community enterprise Linux distribution that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. [3] CentOS Stream is being used by Meta Platforms (known for Facebook and WhatsApp ) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Twitter .
On June 21, 2021, the stable release of Rocky Linux 8.4 was released, [23] with the code name "Green Obsidian". [ 24 ] Rocky Linux 9.0 was released on July 14, 2022, alongside a new reproducible build system called "Peridot", created to ensure the community can easily create new RHEL forks if Rocky Linux ever were to be discontinued, and to ...
CentOS (/ ˈ s ɛ n t ɒ s /, from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) [5] [6] is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes 6.13 TBD: 6.13-rc2 [3] Linus Torvalds: 6.12: 17 November 2024 [4] 6.12.4 [5] Linus Torvalds: Real-time support for x86/x86_64, RISC-V, and ARM64 [6] Userspace scheduler extensions support [7] QR codes for DRM panic messages [6] 25th LTS release [8]
Oracle Linux (abbreviated OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux or OEL) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. [5]
On December 8, 2020, Red Hat announced that development of CentOS, a free-of-cost downstream fork of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), would be discontinued and its official support would be cut short to focus on CentOS Stream, a stable LTS release without minor releases officially used by Red Hat to preview what is intended for inclusion in updates to RHEL.