Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, showing its desktop environment GNOME 47.
DeveloperRed Hat, Inc.
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseFebruary 22, 2000 (2000-02-22)[1]
Latest release
10:10.0 / May 13, 2025 (2025-05-13)[2]
9:9.5 / November 13, 2024 (2024-11-13)
8:8.10 / May 22, 2024 (2024-05-22)
7:7.9 / September 29, 2020 (2020-09-29)
Latest preview10 Beta / November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)[3]
Marketing targetCommercial market (servers, mainframes, supercomputers, workstations)
Available inMultilingual
Update methodSoftware Updater
Package manager
Platformsx86-64; ARM64; IBM Z; IBM Power Systems[5]
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface
GNOME Shell, Bash
LicenseVarious free software licenses, plus proprietary binary blobs[6]
Preceded byRed Hat Linux
Official websiteredhat.com/rhel/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat. 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. Fedora Linux and CentOS Stream serve as its upstream sources. All of Red Hat's official support and training, together with the Red Hat Certification Program, focuses on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

The first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to bear the name originally came onto the market as "Red Hat Linux Advanced Server". In 2003, Red Hat rebranded Red Hat Linux Advanced Server to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS"[7] and added two more variants, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS.[8]

As Red Hat Enterprise Linux is heavily based on open-source software and its source code was historically available to the public, it has been used as the basis for several third-party derivatives, including the commercial Oracle Linux and the community-supported Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux. In 2023, Red Hat stopped making the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux available to the public, allowing access only to customers and developers.[9]

  1. ^ "Red Hat Enterprise Edition Product Line Optimizes Solutions for Top e-Business Applications" (Press release). Red Hat. February 22, 2000. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Red Hat. 2025-05-13 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---10/10.0/x86_64/product-software. Retrieved 2025-05-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Larabel, Michael (2024-11-14). "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 2024-11-27. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  4. ^ Matteson, Scott (2019-03-30). "What's new with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Virtualization". TechRepublic. Archived from the original on 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  5. ^ "9.0 Release Notes - Chapter 2. Architectures". Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat. Archived from the original on 2022-12-26. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  6. ^ "Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems". the Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
  7. ^ "redhat.com | Red Hat Enterprise Linux". 2003-04-07. Archived from the original on 2003-04-07. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
  8. ^ Azhar, Arslan. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux". Archived from the original on 2023-11-17. Retrieved 2023-09-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference RHELClosedSource was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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