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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.
Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes 4.20 23 December 2018 [131]: 4.20.17 [132]: Greg Kroah-Hartman March 2019 [132]: Named Shy Crocodile [133]
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 ...
That said, CentOS Stream 9 and RHEL 9 started from the same codebase [207] and thus CentOS Stream could reasonably be seen as "closer" to RHEL than Fedora. The initial release, CentOS Stream 8, was released on 24 September 2019, at the same time as CentOS 8. [208]
The second release candidate, of version 8.4, the last before the stable release, was released on June 4, 2021. [21] 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 ]
Red Hat Satellite 5 is a licensed downstream adaption of Spacewalk with added functionality to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscriptions. In the active years of the Red Hat Satellite 5 lifecycle Spacewalk was simply known as the upstream project for Satellite.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and other derivatives are based on Fedora 19. Some of the features of Fedora 19 include: Further improvements to the new Anaconda installer; A new initial setup application; Support to application checkpointing through CRIU [61] Default desktop upgraded to GNOME 3.8; Updated to KDE Plasma 4.10 and MATE 1.6; MariaDB ...
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.