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RPM was originally written in 1997 by Erik Troan and Marc Ewing, [1] based on pms, rpp, and pm experiences.. pm was written by Rik Faith and Doug Hoffman in May 1995 for Red Hat Software, its design and implementations were influenced greatly by pms, a package management system by Faith and Kevin Martin in the fall of 1993 for the Bogus Linux Distribution.
Red Hat is the original author of dracut. Red Hat-derived Linux distributions use dracut for initramfs creation. Fedora Linux since version 12, Constantine [3] Red Hat Enterprise Linux since version 6 [4] openSUSE since version 13.2, when it became the default initramfs creation tool [5] SUSE Linux Enterprise Server since version 12; Void Linux [6]
Red Hat Linux was originally developed exclusively inside Red Hat, with the only feedback from users coming through bug reports and contributions to the included software packages – not contributions to the distribution as such. This was changed in late 2003 when Red Hat Linux merged with the community-based Fedora Project. The new plan was ...
YUM aimed to address both the perceived deficiencies in the old APT-RPM, [18] and restrictions of the Red Hat up2date package management tool. YUM superseded up2date in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later. [19] Some authors refer to YUM as the Yellowdog Update Manager, or suggest that "Your Update Manager" would be more appropriate.
RHEL 9 was the first to be based on CentOS Stream, itself based on Fedora Linux, while historically RHEL was based directly on Fedora Linux. [41] The first beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (Plow), based on Fedora Linux 34, was released on November 3, 2021. [42] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (Plow) was released on May 18, 2022. [43]
DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM) [7] [8] [9] is a package manager for Red Hat-based Linux distributions and derivatives. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013 as a replacement for yum; [10] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015 [11] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [when?] [12] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.
Kickstart is normally used at sites with many such Linux systems, to allow easy installation [2] and consistent configuration of new computer systems. Kickstart configuration files can be built three ways: By hand. By using the GUI system-config-kickstart tool. By using the standard Red Hat installation program Anaconda.
In computing, Red Hat Satellite [2] is a systems-management product by the company “Red Hat”. It allows system administrators to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts.