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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.
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] Super-long-term support (SLTS); maintained for many more years by the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) [2]
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 ...
The high version number is based on the designation of RHEL. Rocky Linux is a clone of RHEL, which is also binary-compatible and is already supported by numerous large, financially strong sponsors. [22] On June 21, 2021, the stable release of Rocky Linux 8.4 was released, [23] with the code name "Green Obsidian". [24]
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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
Oracle Linux uses a version-naming convention identical to that of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (e.g. the first version, Oracle Linux 4.5, is based on RHEL 4.5). They have slightly different support lifecycles. [47]
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.