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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]
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.
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]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Red Hat: Red Hat 2002 9.5 [71] 12 years [72] 2024-11-13 X Red Hat Linux, Fedora general Commercial [73] [74] Active Red Hat Linux: Red Hat Red Hat 1995 9 [75] alias Shrike ? 2003-03-31 X – server, workstation None Inactive Rocks Cluster Distribution: UCSD Supercomputing Center, Clustercorp
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives generally include the union set [clarification needed], which is included in the different versions of RHEL.The version numbers are typically identical to the ones featured in RHEL; as such, the free versions maintain binary compatibility with the paid-for version, which means software intended for RHEL typically runs just as well on a free version.
Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) – identical to the kernel shipped in RHEL; Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK [8]) – based on newer mainline Linux kernel versions, with Oracle's own enhancements for OLTP, InfiniBand, SSD disk access, NUMA-optimizations, Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), async I/O, OCFS2, Btrfs and networking.
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]
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).