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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source [6] [7] [8] Linux distribution [9] [10] developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop version for x86-64.
Red Hat announced and publicly released kpatch in February 2014 under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 , [1] shortly before SUSE released its own live kernel patching implementation called kGraft. [8] kpatch was merged into the Linux kernel mainline, and it was submitted for the inclusion in May 2014. [5] [9]
This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel. Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated one of the following levels of support: Supported until next stable version; Long-term support (LTS); maintained for a few years [1]
Early releases of Red Hat Linux were called Red Hat Commercial Linux. Red Hat published the first non-beta release in May 1995. Red Hat published the first non-beta release in May 1995. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It included the Red Hat Package Manager as its packaging format, and over time RPM has served as the starting point for several other distributions ...
up2date, also known as the Red Hat Update Agent, is a tool used by older versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora Core that downloads and installs new software and upgrades the operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Red Hat: Red Hat 2002 9.5 [73] 12 years [74] 2024-11-13 X Red Hat Linux, Fedora general Commercial [75] [76] Active Red Hat Linux: Red Hat Red Hat 1995 9 [77] alias Shrike ? 2003-03-31 X – server, workstation None Inactive Rocks Cluster Distribution: UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp
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.
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux was dropped and turned into a free 30-day trial for RHEL customers as an incentive to migrate to Oracle Linux Premier Support. [6] [7] Ksplice is today offered on the two kernel flavors distributed with Oracle Linux: UEK: the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel; RHCK: the Red Hat Compatible Kernel