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Originally, Red Hat sold boxed versions of Red Hat Linux directly to consumers and business through phone support. The Fedora Project began in 2002 as a set of community supported packages for Red Hat Linux. However, the six month release cycle of Red Hat Linux was too disruptive for business users and Red Hat wanted a more reliable revenue stream.
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 ...
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.
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
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CentOS developers use Red Hat's source code to create a final product very similar to RHEL. Red Hat's branding and logos are changed because Red Hat does not allow them to be redistributed. [38] CentOS is available free of charge. Technical support is primarily provided by the community via official mailing lists, web forums, and chat rooms.
On June 21, 2021, the stable release of Rocky Linux 8.4 was released, [23] with the code name "Green Obsidian". [ 24 ] Rocky Linux 9.0 was released on July 14, 2022, alongside a new reproducible build system called "Peridot", created to ensure the community can easily create new RHEL forks if Rocky Linux ever were to be discontinued, and to ...
Oracle Linux (abbreviated OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux or OEL) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. [5]